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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Freehling remarked that the average individual contribution of $3.44 is $1.25 less than was estimated at the beginning of the drive. "Had it been what we expected, we would have made our goal," he said.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charity Support Reaches $8,750; Goal Impossible | 3/4/1958 | See Source »

Australia's national swimming championships last week wound up a season that has left the record books in tatters. In seven weeks of competition, from the big New South Wales state meet to the nationals in Melbourne, Aussie youngsters had splashed to 31 new world marks. The incredible Konrads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Turn for Glory | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

S. H. Kress & Co., founded 1896, was beginning to feel its years. While its five-and-ten competitors expanded vigorously into the suburbs and prospered in the postwar boom, Kress kept its stores in the downtown sections, saw sales of its 261-store chain slump from $176.2 million in 1952...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Revolt at Kress | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

In her debut, Soprano Little radiated much of the cool assurance-but not all the stagewise technique-of a veteran. The voice she displayed was not yet a big one, but it had a smooth, satiny quality ideally suited to the menacing, feline tension of her carefully calculated movements. Her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Double Launching | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

Getty not only made a big strike of Eocene oil at 1,200 feet, but got right to work on a refinery to turn it into heavy fuel. Since 1956, when Getty formally changed Pacific Western's name to Getty Oil Co., Getty's half share of Neutral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: The Do-lt-Yourself Tycoon | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

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