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Word: inland (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kemal Ataturk took over from the moribund Ottoman Empire after World War I, the ancient glories of Constantinople were already flaking away in a slow death of peeling paint, collapsed masonry, commercial clutter and neglect. Nobody much cared. The fashion then was to lavish attention on the bustling new inland capital of Ankara. As time passed, tourist interest and national pride in the possession of a great historical monument gradually restored Turkish affection to the city they now called Istanbul. Still, nobody did much about repaving its streets, restoring its buildings or clearing its slums until last summer, when energetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Benevolent Bomber | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

...last week, the New York Herald Tribune ferreted out the newest name on the growing list: Clarence Randall, 66, retired head of Inland Steel Co. and special assistant to the President on foreign economic policy. Randall was offered the Pentagon. He had turned it down cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Pentagon, Anyone? | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...courageous sitter is Chicago Art Patron Mary Block, daughter of the late Adman Albert Lasker, wife of an Inland Steel Co. vice president and director, Leigh Block. Undaunted by such Albright canvases as Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida, the study of a time-battered prostitute, That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do, the portrait of a moldy door, and the flotsam-and-jetsam-cluttered watercolor, Ah God-Herrings, Buoys, the Glittering Sea, Mary Block put her best face forward and hoped. Albright put aside (temporarily) his work in progress of the past twelve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: More Than a Portrait | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

Pumps & Profits. Years ago, a marina could be built for a few thousand dollars: a wooden-piling dock, a gas pump, a shack to sell beer and bait. Today's marina may cost as much as $10 million or more for a layout as complete as any inland shopping center. Run properly, with low dockage rates (anywhere from ½?to 6? per foot per day depending on season) and efficient service, it can produce a handsome profit for any businessman. Says one East Coast marinaman: "With good management, you can conservatively make a 20% return on your investment each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Down to the Sea | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...Coal fields of 100 million tons were found far inland near Colomb-Béchar, are already producing 350,000 tons a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Gold from Sand | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

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