Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME'S Stringer Fred Kiewit, 35. checked in at TIME'S Chicago Bureau and went to work on reports that the nation's 248 major fraternal orders (125.861 chapters; assets: $10 billion), once the strongholds of U.S. good-fellowship and male society, have suffered a disheartening drop in prestige and attendance. Himself a sometime member of the Masons' DeMolay. Reporter Kiewit core-sampled the fraternal orders in the Midwest, from Elks to Moose to Knights of Pythias. Taking off from the hub of Chicago, TIME queried eight other stringers and correspondents, found a story...
Dollars for Ancestors. In the van of the mad, meandering mob wandering the face of Europe last week were the travelers from the U.S. Fortnight ago, American Express had reported an early-season drop in Americans abroad, perhaps induced by unsettling reports of inflation and shortages and trouble overseas, but now they were descending on the Continent in overwhelming numbers again. The $150 million spent by some 270,000 Americans in Britain alone this year will provide enough hard curency to pay for most of the dollar-short United Kingdom's purchases of U.S. tobacco and wheat...
...answer to the paradox of prosperity-plus-rebellion is that Batista and Castro supporters agree on many economic issues. Though the men who drop the bombs are often wild young radicals, the brains and money behind the movement come from a group of conservative business and professional men. They want free elections, but insist they intend no swing toward the left. Said one such Castro supporter: "This year I have earned more money than ever before in my life. This has left my mind at ease so I could concentrate on my revolutionary work...
...roots or stalks with cold or tepid water, and the solution is concentrated by heating. The finished product is a gooey paste. Natives have no fear of inhaling its vapors or of putting their hands in it, and they judge its strength by the bitterness of a drop, which they nonchalantly taste...
DEFENSE CUTBACKS will begin to pinch oil producers. To keep under Administration's $38 billion defense budget ceiling, armed forces will cut purchases of petroleum products by as much as $170 million a year-a 15% drop. Aviation fuel, special Navy fuel oils will get deepest cuts...