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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many a steel user had hoped steel would be plentiful in the third quarter, but even those hopes now seemed dim. In an effort to overcome the ammunition shortage (TIME, March 16 et...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: New Boost? | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

...demonstration just about eliminated rival CBS as a competitor, even though the FCC approved CBS's whirling disk system 2% years ago (TIME, Oct. 23, 1950 et seq.) before a Government order shelved production of color sets. CBS President Frank Stanton has already indicated that to go ahead with CBS's incompatible system would be "tilting at windmills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Color by Christmas? | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

...Colossal . . . terrifying . . . incomprehensible . . . ridiculous," said Senator Harry Byrd during last week's Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearings on the ammunition shortage. He was speaking of the Pentagon system. Continuing the investigation touched off last month (TIME, March 16 et seq.) by former Eighth Army Commander James A. Van Fleet, the subcommittee heard about "the system" from top Defense Department officials and ex-officials. Harry Byrd, who did most of the questioning, kept trying to pin responsibility to individuals, but after a long day's questioning, he growled: "We have not got a single name yet of anybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Pentagon Jungle | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...scholarship, he is an effective and devoted pastor. When the bandit Giuliano (TIME, Sept. 12, 1949 et seq.) terrorized Ruffini's Palermo diocese so that hardly anyone dared go into the hills, Cardinal Ruffini left Palermo on foot and unaccompanied, walked up the stony hills toward Giuliano's lair and cried: "Giuliano, Giuliano, you are killing my flock, you are ruining their fields . . . Come and talk to me." After several hours waiting in the sun, when Giuliano still did not come, the cardinal gathered his vestments about him and cried aloud: "Giuliano. I am your archbishop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rome & the Future | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

Auto-insurance rates, which have risen sharply since World War II, appear to be on the way down. Rates have soared because 1) courts have been handing out sky-high judgments in accident cases (TIME, Aug. 27, 1951 et seg.) and, 2) the accident rate itself, notably among young drivers, has gone up alarmingly (28% of all drivers involved in fatal auto accidents in 1951 were under 25). But as the rates went up, independent auto-insurance firms began cutting their rates and snatching business from the large companies. Last week a number of big companies got ready to meet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: Lower Rates | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

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