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...regime has sent Farouk I into exile, legally abolished aristocracy; declared war on corruption, promised land reform to break up the great estates, raised the rich man's taxes (on caviar, sport cars, wine, other luxuries), lowered the poor man's prices for sugar and cotton cloth, abolished censorship, relaxed restrictions on foreign investments. It was a revolution of the middle class, engineered by soldiers but. broadened by the support of businessmen, professional men, office workers and students who believed they had found a leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: A Good Man | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

...invented out of whole cloth by James Churchward, who wrote several detailed, popular books about its inhabitants and their alleged "secrets." Lemuria, originally a geologists' land mass that sank 60 million years ago, was appropriated and modernized by Madame Helena P. Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society. She used it as a home for her "Third Race" of apelike, four-armed men who came to a bad end after discovering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sunken City | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

...years Rossum's Universal Robots will produce so much corn, so much cloth, so much everything, that things will be practically without price. There will be no poverty. All work will be done by living machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: R.U.R., 1952 | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

Rain Hat. In Richmond, Va., the M. & B. Headwear Co. began sales of what it called the first nonshrinkable waterproof hat for men. Nonstitched, the cloth of the hat is laminated together and covered with a thin, transparent coat of plastic. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jul. 28, 1952 | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

...husband's painting career began, she confided, at Fort Myer, Va. (when he was on duty at the nearby Pentagon after the war). He just called for "a rag, thumb tacks and a board." The rag turned out to be a dish cloth on which he painted an oil portrait of Mamie. "I just don't know the word for it," she said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Life with Ike | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

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