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Word: confidental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd beamed with joy at the prospect of a victory he once thought he might never live to see. Democrat Byrd has long waged unremitting war against the Reconstruction Finance Corp., the huge Government lending agency set up by Herbert Hoover in 1932 as a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEHIND THE SCENES: Liquidation Sale? | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

¶The outbreak of influenza which has been sweeping the U.S. has not been as mild as at first thought, the U.S. Public Health Service admitted. In 58 cities in one week, deaths from flu and pneumonia totaled 610. But the service was confident that the outbreak was waning fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Mar. 2, 1953 | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

At the age of fifty, Theodore Morrison '23, has written his first novel. It is a book filled with mature characterization of men and women in an academic community. Obviously, Mr. Morrison, Lecturer on English, knows the problems of professors and administrators in a college, and he sympathizes with his...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: Academic Life; With the Ivy, Thorns | 2/18/1953 | See Source »

At home, the Administration moved with swift precision to reverse the political and economic philosophies of 20 years. Budget Director Joseph Dodge put a lid on new hiring and set each major department to work on a downward revision of costs-with a deadline of March 2 for action. And...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Mobilizing the Energies | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

Last week a real-life shoe salesman, Thomas Bata Jr. of the Czech shoe-manufacturing family, was confident that he could vastly improve on O. Henry's imaginary sales stunt. A new Bata factory (one of 37 in the free world) outside Lima will make 1,000,000 pairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Better than Cockleburs | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

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