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Word: complains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outer harbor. Duluth, working with $10 million allotted by the Minnesota legislature, will build eleven slips for deep-draft ships, expects to spend $30 million in all by 1965. Cleveland is budgeting $5,000,000 for new piers and the roadways and utilities that will serve them. But shippers complain that some lakeside ports are still in the doldrums. Detroit and Buffalo have done little to prepare for the seaway surge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Unlocking the Lakes | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

Most of us complain about high taxes; maybe they keep us from getting that current model car, color TV, or hifi, but these things are luxuries, not necessities. If part of the tax money goes to foreign aid and helps bring some ragged, hungry child in another land a few necessities, we are proud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 3, 1957 | 6/3/1957 | See Source »

...Ford (license H-76-003) along Poland's bumpy roads to check on the conditions of each of his 24 dioceses. What he finds on these trips is a country warming itself in the recovered comforts of free talk and free worship. Communists and liberal intellectuals, in fact, complain bitterly that Gomulka's necessary compromises with the church are turning Poland back to "superstition" -although the more sophisticated clergy that is growing up in Poland under Wyszynski is very different from the old-style simple country priest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Cardinal & the Commissar | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

...heard once in a while though. It is entertaining, if not profound, music; and the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra has shown that it can do some very entertaining playing. If they continue to play with as much energy and idiomatic sympathy as they did Friday night, no one will complain of a lack of intonation, or an occassional misentry...

Author: By Bertram Baldwin, | Title: Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra | 4/30/1957 | See Source »

SWISS SECRECY law, forbidding Swiss banks to reveal clients' names, is likely to be eased because Congressmen and SEC complain that it is being abused in U.S. to manipulate stocks, decide proxy fights. Embarrassed by bad publicity from law originally intended to protect accounts from being seized by foreign dictatorships, Swiss officials are conferring with U.S. on how to allow some disclosures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Apr. 22, 1957 | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

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