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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ In Hollywood, Howard Hughes's limping RKO studios announced that all production would stop for "the present." The studio cut its already skeletonized staff, planned to rent its studio space to independent moviemakers and release their pictures. Cinemaoimator Walt Disney has already ended his 17-year tie-in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Newsreel, Oct. 4, 1954 | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

Nehru (whose name means canal) was opening the first link in the Bhakra-Nangal Canal System, part of an Indian-financed, U.S.-engineered $327 million hydroelectric-irrigation project. Starting in the Himalayan foothills where the Sutlej River pours onto the plains, the project has more than 4,500 miles of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Water for the Punjab | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

Amateur Spirit. In Liedekerke, Belgium, the Silver Post Anglers' Club held a lottery to distribute $100 in prizes after the 125 competitors in a fishing contest failed to catch anything.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 12, 1954 | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

In Pyinmana, not 450 miles from Dienbienphu, the Burmese government last week started its long-promised land reform. About 21,000 acres were parceled out among some 4,500 land-hungry peasants. Unlike Communist-style land reform, the landlords got fair compensation. In the next nine years Premier U Nu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Beginning | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

David B. Cole '56, secretary of the Young Conservative League, has withdrawn his protest, made last Friday to Doan Watson, against a "waiver of rules" allowing the Green Feather group to distribute buttons in the Union and in some Houses.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cole Retracts Protest Against Green Feather | 6/2/1954 | See Source »

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