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Word: escapee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The mortality rate for new businesses has always been high-largely because of mismanagement and inexperience. But the fact that business failures since 1947 have doubled among firms ten years old and older indicates that taxes are now the real trouble. After paying the Government 30% of earnings under $25...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: SMALL BUSINESS | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

Prayers in the Mosques. The news reached Teheran just as the Shah, a stout friend of the U.S., was conferring at a Caspian resort with Ike's special ambassador to the Middle East, ex-Congressman James Richards. As the bodies of the two Americans were returned to Teheran with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: A Trail of Torn Paper | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

The onlooker catches the fever, and with his camera Director Mann works insidiously to drive it up. Never for an instant does he let the moviegoer escape from the appalling situation the platoon is in. Never for an instant does the moviegoer know where he is-or where They are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 8, 1957 | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

Similarly, Mrs. Anita Carroll of Issaquah, Wash., was reported slain primarily because she would have been a drag on the gang's escape.

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Eden Cuts Short N.Z. Vacation, Flies to Boston's Lahey Clinic; Snow Storm Hits Great Plains | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

The man with the money was Prisoner Jorge Antonio, 39, who parlayed a friendship with Juan Perón's brother-in-law into a fortune estimated at $215 million. At Rio Gallegos Prison, Antonio allied himself with four fellow prisoners, all well known Perónista politicos. Rumors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Going for Broke | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

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