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Word: cons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everlasting Need. The citizens of Cassano were surprised when the real criminal spoke up, but only the dullest reader will be. On the other hand, Author Ber-gengruen does not seem noticeably con> cerned with the mystery side of his morality whodunit. His novel's many-faceted problem embraces, besides conscience, might v. right, personal sacrifice, guilt, love and faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Morality Whodunit | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

...gazing into a crystal ball." Steele brought in a bunch of old Coca-Cola hands, set up a detailed method of cost accounting. He slashed costs by eliminating executive bonuses (he incorporated his own in his $96,000-a-year salary), whacking out dead wood, liquidating expensive sales con tracts, and cutting out the company's scholarships and art contests. He also lopped off a bottle-cap factory and a Cuban sugar plantation, because "our business is selling Pepsi." Steele won favor with bottlers with a new national ad campaign, including Faye Emerson on TV. As her neckline plunged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: More Bounce | 4/14/1952 | See Source »

...Calhoun is cast as John Burns, the Lisbon Clipper copilot who rescued her from the Tagus River after the crash and later married her. As a sort of composite of all nurses, Thelma Ritter plays a hardbitten, bighearted girl from Flatbush. Red-haired Susan Hayward, in the leading role, con vincingly matches her on-screen lip move ments to brunette Jane Froman's warm, vivacious singing voice on the sound track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 7, 1952 | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

...York area customers are actually discouraged from installing electric stoves because Con Edison only brings the heavy-voltage lead-in as far as the property; the customer has to pay a private electrician up to about $150 to bring it the rest of the way in. Con Edison, selling both electricity and gas, makes no move to encourage a switch to electric cooking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: The Customer's Friend | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Highest Court Supports N.Y. Feinberg Law | 3/4/1952 | See Source »

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