Word: folds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While newsmen hate to see a paper fold, few tears were shed for the Enquirer even by its jobless staff. It had never been a first-rate daily. Started as a sickly semiweekly in 1886, the Enquirer was bought by Hearst in 1922 for a reputed half-million dollars. He consolidated it with the Oakland Daily Post, which he had started in 1917, banking on the industrial growth of Oakland. Oakland grew, all right, but so did the Post-Enquirer's formidable rival, Joseph Knowland's* Oakland Tribune (TIME...
Southern Charm. During the Civil War, when many another insurance company lost its shirt, New England Mutual prospered by promoting special war-risk policies. After the war, the firm charmed its Southern policyholders back into the fold by permitting them to pay overdue premiums and resume their insurance without new medical examinations...
Last week Sidney Frame led his 100th black sheep back into the army fold. Many of those who had gone before had written to thank him. Said one: "Thank God, I can now put my head on a pillow at night and go to sleep...
...Taft-Hartley Act generally effective except in coal, autos, telephone, shipping, railroads, printing, electric, textiles, building trades, clothing, aircraft, farm equipment, retail business, steel, and white-collar occupations . . . General Eisenhower WILL RUN in '52-if the time is ripe, his wife approves, the stars favor him, the Democrats fold up, and the Republicans give him the nomination...
India waited to see how many untouchables would follow Leader Bhimrao into the Buddhist fold. Best-informed guessers predicted, a considerable boom for Buddhism...