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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such appeasement only blurred the blunt fact that Canada still needs money for development, still lacks enough homegrown capital to supply the demand. Last week a tart reminder of these realities came from Canada itself. Wrote Calgary's Liberal-leaning Albertan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Sense of Disquiet | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

...West End, prostitutes often demand ?5 for their favors but settle for ?3 ($8.40). Sir Ronald Howe, retired deputy commissioner of Metropolitan Police, estimates that many London prostitutes take in as much as ?60 ($168) a night-tax-free, of course. Postwar, London's prostitutes have become a menace as well as a nuisance. A young stenographer was disfigured for life recently when an irate harlot slapped her in the face with a heavy handbag under the mistaken impression that the girl was "working" her territory. Because prostitutes ply London's better streets so regularly, any woman sauntering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Wolfenden Report | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

...Recently police called on a Bari citizen, who had paid a fine in 1935 for skipping the Fascist pre-military course, to demand an uncollected registration fee: 55 centesimi (.088 of a cent). And not long ago at great output of bureaucratic labor, the government began paying off Sicilians for damage inflicted by troops of King Francis II during Garibaldi's campaign in 1860. Biggest payment: one-tenth of a cent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Slayer of Bureaucrats | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

...million a month to inventories during the first half of 1957, piled on $300 million in July. While the sales-to-inventory ratio ($1 to $1.86) stood close to the same level as twelve months ago, the lofty stocks mean that a better-than-seasonal autumn pickup in demand will be necessary to call forth a high wave of new production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Autumn Upturn | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

...Defense Department and aircraft manufacturers doggedly kept solving these problems, figuring that tomorrow's planes and missiles would bring forth a huge demand for the wonder metal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: METALS: Fiasco in Titanium? | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

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