Word: checking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colorado's jagged San Juan Mountains, Ranger Steve Yurich, 34, flew off in a Cessna for a quick fire-spotting swing around his Piedra district, switched to a pickup truck to check the camp sites and flag down a logging truck, then saddled up his horse, "Buck," to inspect the grassy uplands where ranchers will graze 2,800 head of cattle and 7,000 sheep this summer under.permit from the Forest Service...
Wrote one Connecticut farm couple: "We are enclosing a $50 check to invest for us in hopes to gain in future years...
M.I.T. returned the check, referred the letter to its sales organization. An Englishman wrote that he was selling his home and coming to the U.S. to invest his money in mutual-fund shares and to get a job selling them. The president of an insurance company in New Delhi asked if he could come to study M.I.T.'s operations because "I feel that even in an underdeveloped economy there would be room for an institution of this type." One North Carolina man went to Boston, called on Robinson, said he owned $270,000 worth of stock in a Southern...
...being the U.N., staff economists find it hard to question the word of member governments, and even harder to check up on nonmember Peking. Western observers clustered in Hong Kong, however, were frankly skeptical of the U.N. findings. All along they were suspicious of Peking's 1958 claims and even more leery of Peking's blithe boast that in 1959 production would go up another 40%. Red China's government is now reporting droughts and pestilence and-in Kwangtung province-the "worst flood of the century" (TIME, July 6). And at the very moment that Shanghai...
...caused concern as well as hope; in some, harsh methods employed new guises. But in this Geneva interval, when a basic worldwide test was how firmly nations stood on their own, how able and anxious they were to resist the reach of Communism, the results were impressive. A partial check list...