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Word: dollarses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Answering a Chamber of Commerce appeal for a reward fund, hundreds sent in donations in quarters, half dollars, bills and personal checks, totaling within a few days more than $20,000. The usually pro-segregationist Arkansas Democrat praised the outpouring, boasted: "That was the true Little Rock, rising out of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARKANSAS: Dynamite & the Cop | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Totally without industry, Laos has only two legal exports of any importance: 1) benzoin and 2) stick-lac, an insect product that is used as an ingredient in lacquer and varnish. But the country's main crop is opium (one-third of world production") grown on the mountaintops by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: LAOS: THE UNLOADED PISTOL | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Industrious, booming Belgium (pop. 9,000,000) likes U.S. business (24 U.S. companies began operations there last year), U.S. dollars, and even U.S. art. Last week the President nominated as the new U.S. Ambassador to Belgium a New Yorker who shares all three of these likes. Ike's nominee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Man for Brussels | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

The $11 billion-a-year aircraft-manufacturing industry, fifth biggest in the U.S., is troubled and worried. Despite enormous backlogs of orders, most companies feel insecure, not only about the future but also about the present. Warned United Aircraft's Chairman H. M. ("Jack") Horner: "All of our military...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Flying Low | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

In full-page trade-paper ads, TV Producer Jack (Bold Journey) Douglas talked back to his critics-and his words had the authority of success. Last week he announced details of the sale of 'his new TV series, Sweet Success, to the Independent Television Corp. for international syndication. Douglas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Sweet Success | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

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