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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Responsibility. Perhaps the main cause of U.S.-British conflict is that the responsibilities of the two nations are so different. If the U.S. sank below the sea tomorrow, the free world's defense against Communism would be impossible. But the British, being: at least the heirs, are not daunted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Wider Causes | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

A leak in the grease cell of a rear wheel had caused the brakes to lock, the court said, and Gaidry Motors knew about the leak, because the man who sold them the car told them about it. Thus, Gaidry Motors should have warned Hensley. In awarding $11,489.95 to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SELLING: Caveat Venditor | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

But when the pinspotter was well along, Patterson saw that one more royalty-producing machine was not enough. The wild swings of the machinery industry had to be counterbalanced with some consumer products. Furthermore, A.M.F. was shocked to discover that it was not good enough to get prime war contracts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Automatic Pin Boy | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

Suburbs & Smog. Nevertheless, the co-op has its troubles. Steadily growing industrial suburbs have cut some 30,000 acres off the California citrus growers' orchards since World War II, and California's oranges have been getting smaller over the past few years. Sunkist's researchers are at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Pyramid in the Sun | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

Austral Seas. Three weeks later, the expedition reached the Pacific. Chronicler Andrés de Valdarrábanos tells what happened: "Captain [Balboa], going ahead of all those he was conducting up a bare high hill, saw from its summit the South Sea . . . And immediately he turned toward the troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Peak of Glory | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

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