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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In Pittsburgh's Federal District Court last week, five more U.S. Communist leaders were found guilty of conspiring to teach the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government. For 50-year-old Steve Nelson, former C.P. chieftain in western Pennsylvania, it was the second legal blow in a little more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: 56 Convictions | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

For farmers, aristocrats of the postwar boom, higher production has not meant higher earnings, as it has for industry. But neither has the farm recession spelled disaster. The Agriculture Department reports farm income from the first half of 1953 down only 6% from a year ago. Unless the drop is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: Growing Surplus | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

What started out as a forbidden idyll headed quickly toward disaster. Link had his pride, did not want to be simply a kept lover. When he tried to break with Camilo, she called him a nigger and cried rape. While the whole town was talking and racial tension was at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Color in Connecticut | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

"Another proposal for a wage increase," said Moody, "may be accepted by dominant members of the industry despite the fact that it is sheer economic insanity. Such an increase can result in nothing but disaster and chaos. It will wreck our southern industry, put most of our workers on relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Sheer Economic Insanity | 8/3/1953 | See Source »

Among the picture's other attractions, there is a strong suggestion that Bob and Linda do more than chatter about the pretty native blankets in that hotel bedroom. There is also a free tour of Cuernavaca and Taxco, two of Mexico's most beautiful cities. And finally, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 27, 1953 | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

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