Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...colleges in the United States during the summer. The State Department, however, asked them to re-apply in the fall when college newspapers were publishing regularly. Now that these Soviet editors have again sought permission to tour this country, the State Department should grant them entrance. It will thereby correct any impression abroad that it is building a Paper Curtain of refused visas around the United States...
...TIME. The articles displayed were, of course, those of TIME advertisers. On top of the wellstocked bureau was a wallet. The wallet was the key to this exhibit. Visitors were supposed to guess the amount of cash the average TIME reader carries in his pocket at any given time. (Correct answer...
...from the factories of many companies poured the machines that would run the factories of the future-machines that could control scores of manufacturing operations, correct their own mistakes, handle office chores that formerly required scores of clerks. They could also solve incredibly complicated technical problems once beyond the scope of even the biggest staffs of engineers. Among 1954's automated strides: ¶G.E., U.S. Steel and Metropolitan Life all started using Remington Rand's $1,000,000 Univac for totting up payrolls, writing checks and figuring costs (estimated first-year savings to G.E.: $500,000). International Business...
Dashes & Jags. The slopeline consists of two lines of lights at the end of the runway, on sloping supports like saw teeth. When an airplane makes a correct approach, they blend into two continuous lines. If the approach is not correct, they look broken up into dashes or jags, telling the pilot what is wrong...
...allegation that the German Labor Front acted only as the agent of Volkswagen . . . is not correct. It is clear that the German Labor Front wanted to retain full control over purchase and delivery of cars, for political and economic reasons, and that . . . Volkswagen was excluded from business activities and restricted to production. For this reason, it is evident that Volkswagen shares no co-liability...