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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looking toward continent's-end Patagonia. Outwardly, Patagonia seems little more than 300,000 sq. mi. of wasteland lashed by 60-m.p.h. antarctic winds, blinded by spinning dust devils, cursed by endless drought that is relieved by only 5 in. of rain a year. Its 500,000 inhabitants earn a rugged living by running 18 million sheep and 1,500,000 goats on scrub grass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Operation Patagonia | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

Rambler's success is writ large in the company's books. American's earnings after taxes for the first six months (ending this week) of its fiscal year will reach almost $35 million, or about $5.80 a share v. $26 million for the whole twelve months of the last fiscal year. For the entire year, American should earn upwards of $50 million, and may easily earn as high as $64 million, or about $11 a share, if Romney's confident expectation of 350,000 Rambler sales holds up. Earnings are piling up so fast that Romney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Dinosaur Hunter | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...Picasso has learned and said. Precisely in this sense, and not in any spirit of license, The Bathers must be viewed indulgently as a Picasso. This is his domain, building upon a past he himself created. If he is making mistakes they are mistakes he has been careful to earn...

Author: By Paul W. Schwartz, | Title: Picasso: The Bathers | 3/26/1959 | See Source »

...from $5,000,000 to $6,000,000, 3) from $9,000,000 up. Although the total number of movie theaters in the U.S. has dropped from 18,719 to 11,200 in the past two years, Sindlinger insisted that "blockbusters," the $9,000,000-and-up extravaganzas, can earn practically unlimited profits if properly promoted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOX OFFICE: Something to Sell | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...Bursting with ideas for plays and poems," he works as a rent collector as his pile of unpublished manuscripts grows higher and higher. When Mother complains that the children are undernourished. Father--decent man that he is--drops his pen, rolls up his scrolls, and heads for Calcutta to earn some rice-money...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Pather Panchali | 3/3/1959 | See Source »

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