Word: cons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also began an investigation. Kilpatrick, a hard-dig ging reporter (who has since succeeded Historian Douglas Southall Freeman as editor of the News Leader - TIME, July 1 6, 1951), first got interested in the case as a reporter when Rogers made an un successful appeal to a higher court. Con vinced of his innocence, Kilpatrick ran a two-column editorial called "The Curious Case of Silas Rogers." Wrote he: "The conviction grows, and grows [that] Silas Rogers is imprisoned for life - for a crime he never committed." "Kilpo" Kilpatrick quizzed Rogers and prison authorities, telephoned and wrote newspapers in three...
...that a free flow of profitable trade between the nations of the West was as great a bulwark to peace as arms. Somehow the unhealthy gap between U.S. exports and imports, that drained for eign nations of their gold and upset their currencies, had to be closed. But is con tinued U.S. aid the only way? In 1952 both the U.S. and Europe decided that a global WPA was no solution. Significantly, it is the Europeans themselves, chafing at the necessity for continued handouts and their dependency on every rise & fall of the American economy, who feel strong enough...
More appliances of all kinds will be needed. Says Westinghouse's Gwilym Price : "We think 1953 should be a year of con tinued high production in the appliance business. We expect the consumer to buy at the highest rate in history." In 1953 the long-heralded age of atomic power will dawn. Westinghouse will start operating the land-based prototype of the reactor it is building to power the sub marine Nautilus. Since the reactor could also be used to run a commercial power plant, the National Security Resources Board urged the Atomic Energy Commission to let U.S. industry...
...Humphrey, the new Treasury Secretary, directors of the M. A. Hanna Co. turned over the chairman's duties to Vice Chairman George H. Love, 52. A Princeton man and a veteran of 26 years in the coal business, Love will stay on as president of the Hanna-con-trolled Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co., world's biggest bituminous coal company...
...slightly comical rhinos, which took the assemblage largely by surprise, must have evoked strong words both pro and con. Only two statements have survived these fifteen years. George B. Agassiz, Chairman of the Corporation in that year, was reticent at first, but finally said, "they are perfectly stunning and make a most impressive entrance to the building...