Word: bells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they learned, why 1959 looks like a big car year, and to get a pictorial sneak preview of the new models, see BUSINESS, Fast Getaway. DIPLOMATS have negotiated about it, politicians have exploited it, editorialists have pondered it. But what is really happening on Quemoy? TIME'S Jim Bell, who has been there before, went back last week on the first plane that would take him and filed a moving report. See FOREIGN NEWS, Quemoy: Autumn Nightmare...
...front end (concessions, games of chance) got a big play too. A muscular cowpoke swung a big wooden mallet and sent a weight soaring up a wire to clang a gong. He strutted off like a dragon slayer. "The guy can rig that bell any way he wants to," said an operator. "He twists a knob, and you'll never hit the bell; he twists it back, and you'll hit it every time." Over where the flatties (dishonest concessionaires) worked the barrel ball game, the toss of a ball into a barrel won a prize. But someone...
...five-story-high trading room of the New York Stock Exchange, activity ceased one morning last week as Exchange Chairman Edward C. Werle stepped onto the balcony, sounded a bell, pounded his gavel and read a statement. In an action rarely taken, the exchange censured and fined the partners of Garvin, Bantel & Co. $25,000, suspended Senior Partner George K. Garvin from trading for three months...
...would buy, because the city's plans for the project seemed too high-class for the moderate rents it wanted to charge. Finally, in 1954, a group of citizens, ranging from Henry Ford to the U.A.W.'s Walter Reuther, obtained a 90-day option. With James W. Bell, Detroit City Planner, as coordinator, the group raised $450,000 in loans, set itself a high goal: no regimentation, no restrictions, the most advanced technology and design ("We must be mindful that we are building for 50 to 100 years"), yet a range of prices that would permit middle-income...
Kennedy also announced that Mrs. Sharon Deykin Baris has been awarded the $400 Helen Choate Bell prize...