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Word: justness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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His system was simple. He erected a corrugated-tin "clubhouse" on land (which he leased but did not own) in the oak-shaded canyon bottom. Then he lured aging citizens 34 miles from Los Angeles by offering free bus rides and free lunches. From the clubhouse he allowed them to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: All's Well that Ends Well | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

One of his customers was a wealthy Spanish cattleman named Ramon Samovia; Yant confided to Samovia that oil had just been discovered near some property he owned in Placerita Canyon-he would be rich as soon as he dug up enough money to sink a well himself. Samovia bought into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: All's Well that Ends Well | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

The name of the new organization was a jawbreaker. "When I get to it," said one harassed delegate, "I just say, 'I see, after you,' and I've got it."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Bread, Peace & Freedom | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

China's fugitive Nationalist government tarried at Chengtu just ten days. The night before it fled once more from the oncoming Reds, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek called a cabinet session. Decisions: 1) resistance to the Communists on the mainland would go underground; 2) headquarters for some 600,000 Nationalist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Last Stand | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Riding Out the Rise. At week's end Gonzalez made devaluation law by decree. Instead of the eight old dollar-peso exchange rates, Chile got just one, pegged, after talks with the International Monetary Fund, at about 65 to the dollar. At the same time, food and drug products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: The Mad Method | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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