Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME Cover, May 2, 1949), who provides the sense of leadership, is a man with a bear's body and the somber visage of a St. Bernard. On the crystal chandelier over his desk nests a pair of birds that fly in and out of the always open door. "He is kind to animals," says his wife Inez, "and even kinder to humans." His salary is $10,000 a year. His wealth, as itemized before the 1956 election, consisted of $562 and a house with 16 years yet to go on its FHA mortgage; when he went...
Fomento. At that point Puerto Rico, its hungry people jamming an eroded land without oil, coal or iron, looked hopeless. Undeterred. Muñoz counted the island's assets: plentiful labor, an open door through U.S. tariff walls for anything the island could grow or make, a ready-to-hand brain trust of half a dozen bright young U.S.-educated economists, professors and businessmen. Among them: Rafael Pico, now president of the government's bank, and Roberto Sánchez Vilella, now Secretary of State (Vice-Governor). Rex Tugwell. named Governor, implanted an efficient civil service...
American educators can concern themselves not only with the problem of whether Russia will build the better mousetrap, but, if the Russians do, will our world beat a path to their door...
...speech was a go-minute diatribe against Bulgaria's next-door neighbor, Comrade Tito, whom he called "the Trojan horse of the imperialist camp" in Eastern Europe. He was sorry that he had ever tried to make up with the fellow, and now argued (contrary to his enthusiastic courtship of Tito three years ago) that Stalin's Cominform had done right to expel Yugoslavia in 1948. "Revisionism, or right-wing opportunism," is now the major problem of the Communist camp, said Khrushchev, and he was all against different roads to socialism, or letting a hundred flowers bloom. (Echoed...
Since it takes a hefty pot of gold to meet such competition, big companies are taking over what used to be an industry of small firms. The industry's biggest is Avon (1957 sales: a record $100,379,695), which sells its products door to door with the help of some 100,000 representatives. But the liveliest is fast-growing Revlon, run by aggressive Charles Revson, 51. Revson founded his company in 1932, built it up to a $95 million gross last year by advertising the elegance and glamorous names of his products, popularizing such ideas as matching lipstick...