Word: either
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seems that the average TIME-reading woman is 5 ft. 5 in. in height, weighs 134 Ibs. (and wishes she weighed less - which 40% do), has an average $14.37 cash her pocketbook. At the time she received our mail questionnaire she was, by & large, either reading, resting, telephoning, primping, cooking, washing dishes, cleaning the house, doing the laundry, returning home or calling for her mail...
Since India and Pakistan became independent just one year ago, 561 of 562 princely states have joined either one dominion or the other: The holdout is Hyderabad, about the size of Minnesota, whose ruler, the Nizam, is said to be the richest man in the world. Last week, under pressure to become part of India, Hyderabad appealed to the U .N. Security Council for help in preserving its independence. In Hyderabad, TIME Correspondent Robert Lubar examined Hyderabad's cold war with India, which may touch off a new wave of Hindu-Moslem warfare. Lubar cabled...
...that the guerrillas had received aid from Communist-dominated Countries. At several points well inside Albania the U.N. observers saw deep trenches, mortar emplacements, pillboxes, ammunition and food. Just inside Greek territory observers found Hungarian canned vegetables and fruit, Yugoslav canned meat and Albanian cigarettes. In the bushes on either side of the border were Bulgarian books on such subjects as "Thirty Years in the Soviet Army," "This Is How We Fought at Stalingrad" and "The American Plan for the Enslavement of Europe...
...Song Before." According to Messrs. Styne & Cahn, this is how the title to their first hit was born. Since then most of their major decisions, and the titles of their best songs, have come like that. Like their brothers on Tin Pan Alley, Styne & Cahn believe that a tune either "romps," "walks," "bounces," or you put it away. Says Jule: "You can't fight it; either it comes easy or you don't play with it." Last week the latest Styne & Cahn hit, It's Magic, was the nation's No. 2 best seller...
Collateral. Packard Motor Car Co., which split its stock 5-for-1 in 1929 when it sold above 160, was ready to reverse the procedure. President George T. Christopher announced that he would ask stockholders to turn in their stock, on a basis of either i share for 5, or i for 3. It would make Packard, now selling below 5, more respectable and more acceptable as collateral...