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Word: damse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Home construction, which has been down all year, increased from a rate of 990,000 new homes annually to 1,000,000 annually last month. Builders expect easier credit to push the industry higher next year. Though plant expansion may drop as much as 7% in 1958, the new homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE 1957 RECESSION: Facts & Figures for the Debate | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

AFRICAN INDUSTRIALIZATION will be speeded by $3 billion Inga hydroelectric project, the world's biggest, to start building soon near mouth of the Congo River. Complex of dams and power stations will generate 200 billion kw-h a year-about twelve times the output of Grand Coulee Dam -for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Nov. 25, 1957 | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

Potent Arm. Mayor Lawrence appeared on the municipal scene just when Financier Richard K. Mellon (Mellon National Bank, Gulf Oil, Alcoa) and a platoon of lesser tycoons were preparing to rip their dowdy old city apart and rebuild it. Lawrence proved to be a valuable political ally. He ordered strict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: The Mighty Boss | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

Ignoring the raging cold war over Syria, hard-driving Premier Adnan Menderes of the ruling Democrats campaigned to boost his 441-82 majority on a slogan of "A School, a Road, a Faucet, and a Mosque for Every Village." Menderes obviously had a fat war chest. Having barred all opposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: The Dry-Cell Vote | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

The truth seems to be, reported London Daily Telegraph Special Correspondent Denis Warner last week from Kabul, that most Afghans, official as well as unofficial, dislike and distrust foreigners, regardless of nationality. When the Afghan King left his Russian jet and was whisked to his palace on a five-lane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Ring Me Up | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

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