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Word: debt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just how much hotter than "millions of degrees" is the center of the atomic phenomenon? Billions? Trillions? Let's not get the national debt mixed up with the atomic bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 7, 1951 | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

...first A-bomb's exploding efficiency was about 10 million degrees C. The new bombs are probably hotter. But-dollar for degree-they are unlikely to be as hot as the national debt: $255 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 7, 1951 | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

...that I do not think we fully appreciate. If the United States were not there with its powerful forces there would be nothing to prevent Russia from attacking us instead of looking for objectives in Asia. Not only those living in Canada, but the whole world . . . owes a great debt to the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Debt of Gratitude | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

...withdrawal at Lexington or at the similar P.H.S. hospital at Fort Worth, only to fall into the habit* again. Says Danny, whose downfall began with an earache 25 years ago: "I've been a burden to the Government most of my life. Now I can repay my debt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The White Stuff | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

Owner Phillip Meyers, president of Cincinnati's Fashion Frocks, Inc., and take on Kelley-Koett's $1,500,000 debt. Millionaire Meyers, who bought the company nine years ago, was willing to sell it because he lacked the technical know-how to put it on its feet; it lost money in 1949, made only $56,000 last year. Tracer-lab thought it could do better than that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Switcheroo | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

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