Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beginning with his first year as Harvard's president (TIME, Feb. 5, 1934), through Harvard's tercentenary (TIME, Sept. 28, 1936), through postwar revamping of Harvard's curriculum (TIME, Sept. 23, 1946), Conant has been on TIME'S cover three times before. This is his fourth appearance-a rare record for a nonpolitical personage. Even this appearance goes back to his Harvard days. For Conant's fascination with public schools began in 1933, when he had to decide "whether to drown a kitten," meaning Harvard's ailing Graduate School of Education. Conant...
...industries. Last week Washington economists reported a fresh surge in expenditures for new plant and equipment. Capital investment has climbed from an annual rate of $30.6 billion in the first quarter to $32.3 billion in the second to a brisk $33.4 billion, may well hit $35 billion in the fourth quarter-if a prolonged steel strike does not sabotage the economists' projections...
...they need, boosted consumer credit by $2 billion in this year's first half to $46.7 billion. Much of it is financing new cars. August car sales, which usually slow down in anticipation of new models, ran faster than July's, probably topped 500,000. For the fourth quarter, automakers are scheduling production of 1,900,000 new cars, up 41% from last year. By next spring, they expect to be selling at an annual rate of 7,200,000, within a bumper's reach of 1955's alltime record...
...Fourth Biggest. The man in Mercedes' driver's seat is foxy Friedrich Flick, 75, a convicted war criminal who lost 80% of his steel fortune at war's end, bought a 37½% interest in Daimler-Benz between 1954 and 1957. Flick has driven Mercedes so fast and furiously that his stock has risen in value from $20 million to $200 million, and he has rocketed back to become Germany's No. 2 industrialist (after Alfried Krupp). Seeking a smaller car for the Mercedes line, Flick had Daimler buy 88% of the competing Auto Union company...
...monetary system; of coronary thrombosis; in Chicago. An intellectual maverick for a banker, courtly Edward Brown, read a balance sheet or James Joyce with equal recall, was a lifelong Democrat who was hauled in by Chicago cops in 1912 while campaigning for Woodrow Wilson, in 1944 heartily endorsed a fourth term for F.D.R...