Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the steel industry dropped the basing-point system (TIME, July 19), Big Steel's Ben Fairless began to worry about the fate of Pittsburgh. Because it normally makes more steel than local industries can use, he thought some of the steel plants would have to move away to find a market. But last week, it seemed likely that the market would come to Pittsburgh...
...stocky, he was transferred to a battered UNRRA truck, and hidden under a tarpaulin. For the next eleven days, after dodging Yugoslav border patrols, he traveled by mule and on foot over rugged mountain trails, always in guerrilla hands, never sure that he would not meet the same fate as Polk...
...conversation over the telephone, through voice vibrations in the room, even when the instrument is not in use.) But in Czechoslovakia today, people simply aren't the kind who swarm into the streets looking for a scrap. Right now, I think they are just bemoaning their fate, and secretly hoping to be liberated by war between Russia...
...Embassy and the Mexican government exchanged notes of sympathy, and plans were made for an impressive joint funeral. But, sad to say, the common fate of the 16 did not contribute to international understanding. Instead, U.S.-Mexican friendship, which had blossomed steadily since Harry Truman laid a wreath on the Niños Heróes monument (TIME, March 17, 1947), was shaken to its roots...
Then there were the ladies. Bustling and beribboned, Republican women were on hand in droves. Eyeing them, the New York Times's lean and waggish Meyer Berger wondered if the fate of the party might not be settled in "Coke-filled rooms." Tom Dewey's campaign workers wooed them wildly with gifts. They handed out bottles of deodorant, emery boards, silver polish, Life Savers, chocolate, chewing gum, cigarette holders, pocket combs-and brown paper sacks to carry all the boodle...