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Word: automaticism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ Many a Senate Republican has special misgivings about prospects for the Administration's labor bill. Reason: Arizona's open-shop advocate, Barry Goldwater, because of his seniority on the Labor Committee, will be the G.O.P.'s ranking Senate spokesman. Moderate Republicans fear that their program will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAPITAL NOTES: Fears & Frustrations | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

If large infusions of democracy and U.S. aid were the easy, automatic antidotes to backwardness and poverty that they are often assumed to be, mineral-rich Bolivia (pop. 3,300,000) should be a paradise. The bloody uprising of 1952 led Bolivia into the world's most comprehensive social...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Chaos in the Clouds | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

Cruising on automatic pilot 35,000 ft. over the Atlantic last week, a new Pan American 707 jet transport suddenly nosed into a steepening glide that pressed 124 aboard tightly to their seats. Fighting heavy gravity forces, Captain W. Waldo

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Death at the Back Door | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

Lynch inched forward to the cockpit from the lounge, helped the copilot and flight engineer override the automatic pilot and pull the plane out at 6,000 ft. After an emergency landing at Gander, the plane showed no damage from the dive beyond a cracked wing-splice plate; investigators guessed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Death at the Back Door | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

Automatic Fisherman. An automatic, spring-triggered fishing-rod holder for lazy or busy fishermen was put on the market by Automatic Fish Rod Manufacturing of Detroit. The holder can be adjusted for small, medium and heavy fish, automatically snaps to a vertical position and sets the hook at any bite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Feb. 9, 1959 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

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