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After returning to Helsinki in a special Russian plane, Premier Kekkonen proudly termed the $350-million treaty the biggest deal ever made by Finland. It would in all likelihood also be the costliest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: Big Deal | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

...With the U.A.W. winning $100-a-month pensions (including Social Security) for workers over 65, improved medical and hospital insurance, the second longest and second costliest strike in the U.S. automotive industry ended early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITIES IN THE NEWS, Jun. 19, 1950 | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

...100th day when the name-calling and table-pounding died away in Detroit's Sheraton Hotel. It should have been a time for rejoicing, for Walter Reuther's C.I.O. United Automobile Workers and the Chrysler Corp. had finally settled the second longest and the second costliest strike in the U.S. automotive industry.* But everyone was still too mad to cheer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: What's There to Celebrate? | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

Plotting & Prayers. Within the fortnight, U.S. moviegoers will see the jolt her career has gotten: MGM's Annie Get Your Gun, 1950's biggest, costliest ($3,200,000) musical. The star: Betty Hutton. As something extra, Actress Hutton will pop up as co-star with Fred Astaire this summer in another brightly colored song & dance film, Paramount's Let's Dance. Though Hollywood's box office has been slumping, there are still surefire receipts in a lavish Technicolored musical-and not enough surefire cinemusical stars to go around. As the cinemusical girl of 1950, Betty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: This Side of Happiness | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

...expendable. New York is currently witnessing the impact of present-day economy on the traditional concept of the church: the dramatic demolition of the Collegiate Reformed Church of St. Nicholas, which Frank Lloyd Wright declared the finest in New York. Located on one of Fifth Avenue's costliest and most coveted corners [48th Street], it will make way for an office building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Billion-Dollar Question | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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