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Word: inspect (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carhop. In Lima, Ohio, when Andrew Moseley got out of his car to inspect the damage after a collision, a stranger slipped in behind the wheel, drove away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 23, 1953 | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

States Senotor Philip f. Bowker, chairman of the Committee, expects final action on the bills some time next week. In the meantime, representatives of the MDC will inspect the old rink on St. Botolph St. to determine the extent of necessary repairs. Committee action will wait on their report...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Ice Rink Not To Replace Arena | 2/12/1953 | See Source »

Last week, in winning his greatest battle, Apple Seller Cardiff upset the Food & Drug Administration's entire applecart. In a case that Cardiff has been fighting for nearly three years, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal inspectors have no right to inspect a food plant without the owner's permission. In effect, the decision, based on "vague" language in the law, wiped away most of the evidence-gathering power of the Food & Drug Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Upsetting the Applecart | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

Arriving in Nairobi last week to inspect Kenya's "security services," strapping Sir Percy Sillitoe, 64-year-old chief of Britain's famed M.I.5 (Secret Service), theorized that Red undercover agents keep in touch with the Mau Mau through a big Russian hospital in Addis Ababa. African patients get free medical treatment, courtesy of the Kremlin; afterwards, they have a curious habit of turning up in trouble spots all over Africa. Sir Percy's theory, if true, could plausibly explain the fact that Mau Mau agents have been caught infiltrating along the lower slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Slight Change for the Worse | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

...pedestal bore not only the famous 1938 expropriation decree of President Lazaro Cardenas, but quotations from a 1936 pro-expropriation speech by Aleman, then the youthful governor of Veracruz. Last week, in the final month of his presidential term, President Aleman flew to the Gulf Coast jungles to inspect Pemex' new Tenixtepec field, the country's biggest strike since Mexico took over its oil industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Pemex' Progress | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

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