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Word: frees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Town. In Nagoya, Japan, Fusao Ochiai missed the last streetcar, swiped a trolley and drove it to his home, soon got another free ride-to jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 2, 1959 | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...ballyhooed "Mother-in-Law Mattresses," sale-priced at $9.95, craftily explained to buyers: "After mother-in-law has gone home because of the mattresses' strange odor of miscured sisal, the handy homemaker can cover the otherwise-perfect 510-coil mattress so that it will give years of odor-free comfort and sound sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 2, 1959 | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...conference whether he thought that the U.S.'s longest nationwide steel strike proved the inadequacy of the Taft-Hartley law, President Eisenhower replied that he did not "think Taft-Hartley is necessarily any cure for this thing. If we can't settle our economic differences by truly free economic bargaining without damaging seriously . . . the United States, then we have come to a pretty pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: On Two Tracks | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...last year to let the Army keep its space mission and the Von Braun team, also heavily modified Defense Secretary Neil McElroy's order of last month that the Air Force would be responsible for space-rocket vehicles. Actually, many thoughtful Army officers were glad to be free of the costly distractions of space to concentrate on overdue modernization of equipment and tactics for atomic-war ground troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPACE: The Prematurely Grey Mare | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...only within recent months that the city government has devised an overall "regulatory plan," which is intended to shift much of the city's business-and most of its traffic-away from Rome's historic center to the suburbs. In the meantime, profiteers and speculators have been free to make Rome's outskirts a mixture of slums and squalid forests of ugly, jerry-built apartments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Semi-Eternal City | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

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