Word: ets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus Radio Moscow last week reported the opening of the last session of the 19th Congress of the Communist Party (TIME, Oct. 13 et seq.). Stalin, as expected, was to have the last word...
Things had been more or less quiet in Korea's prison camps ever since Brigadier General Haydon L. Boatner subdued the Communist rioters on infamous Koje Island last spring (TIME, May 26 et seq.). Then came the big dispersal. Off to the mainland went 48,000 anti-Communist Koreans, to be detained in six camps there. The Communist North Koreans were left on Koje and two neighboring islands. All 20,000 Chinese prisoners were shipped to the mountainous island of Cheju. There last week, trouble flared...
...secret of Nelson's low price is that he applied the techniques of mass production (i.e., a standard design and precut parts) to his houses plus a liberal use of the new "do it yourself" idea (TIME, June 30 et seq.). His men grade the site and lay a concrete slab foundation, which is left to dry for a week. Then a truck dumps off floor beams, wall sections and other parts of a house. In 27 minutes two men bolt the frames together, throw up the walls and hoist the roof in place. Insulating material, then three coats...
Busy Oilman. Spearhead of the new U.S. policy is U.S. Oilman W. Alton Jones, president of the Cities Service Co. (TIME, Sept. 1 et seq.), who last week left for the U.S. after four weeks in Iran. He had been there as a private citizen, but it was clear that he had at least the tacit approval of the White House and the State Department. Last week, before leaving Teheran, Jones called in reporters. Said he: no deals had been made and no details discussed, but Cities Service might help Iran revive its oil industry, and might buy some Iranian...
...format that has been successful with white people." The formula has worked so well that Johnson's LIFE-like Ebony (estimated 520,000) and Quick-size Jet (estimated 210,000) have become two of the most widely read Negro magazines in the world (TIME, Oct. 1, 1945 et seq.). Two years ago when he put out Tan Confessions ("Is the Chaste Girl Chased?", "Love in the Choir Loft," "I Took My Mother's Man"), Johnson thought he had another winner in a magazine of "passion" with a purpose. Last week he admitted he was wrong...