Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Harvard, the Tribune sent Glasgow to Chicago as its Midwest correspondent. He came to TIME in 1950, assigned to the Chicago bureau. Some of the TIME stories he covered include the Cicero race riots of 1951, the tragic West Frankfort, Ill coal mine disaster, the rise of Adlai Stevenson...
Five-Time Winner. Dissatisfaction with "merely printing the news" has brought the P-D and its staffers eleven Pulitzer Prizes. Even though the prizes were started in 1917 under the will of the P-D's founder, few newspapermen ever complain that favoritism is involved, since the paper'...
The Japanese have the highest living standard in Asia; last week Tokyo's Ginza glittered with Christmas displays and selling was brisk. Japan is an expense account state: there is a new rich class, with fishtail Cadillacs and matched sets of Spaulding golf clubs. But the average industrial wages...
The Red Cross sent nurses and disaster workers into the central Louisiana area.
Almost two-thirds of RFC's assets are business loans totaling $664,500,000, and Cravens thinks that 90% of them are readily marketable. RFC also has some other blue chips which should be easy to sell: $85.9 million in railroad securities, $45.5 million in securities of banks and...