Word: keyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...states that elect Governors this fall, seven-in addition to New York-are in the midst of critical contests that will have important effects in national politics. For a down-to-the-line view of these races, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Key Races to the Storehouse...
...back as 2,000 B.C., form an irreplaceable record. But if the library were destroyed, the substance and art of its contents would not be lost. Eight years ago the Jesuit fathers of Missouri's Roman Catholic St. Louis University got permission to microfilm some 30,000 key Vatican Library manuscripts. Backed financially by the Knights of Columbus, they have now recorded a staggering 11 million pages from such works as St. Thomas Aquinas' original manuscript, Summa Contra Gentiles, and the famed 4th century Codex Vaticanus copy of the Bible (TIME, April...
...Bible (see color pages) was meant to outdo in magnificence any previous manuscript. To comply with the duke's wishes, a noted Florentine bookseller commissioned one Ugo Comilli to copy the text on milk-white vellum of calf or sheepskin ; three artists whose names have been lost illuminated key pages. The finished product passed into the safekeeping of the Vatican Library in the mid-17th century, was last displayed in 1950 on the 500th anniversary of the founding of the Vatican Library, and is currently kept in a massive oak cabinet in the Vatican's special storage rooms...
...that Reuther would give in came when Ford proposed a three-year agreement. Reuther raised no real objection, even though this key Ford demand had been flatly turned down for months. From then on, differences were quickly settled. The problem was to find enough high-sounding but low-cost fringe benefits so that Reuther, who had long ago scrapped his grandiloquent profit-sharing schemes, could save face. Fordman Bugas hurried to a special evening meeting of Ford's board in Dearborn. He returned with a few penny-ante sweeteners. Reuther stepped back into the conference room, as union stewards...
Prospects seem dim for any fast improvement in many key industries. Railroad employment plunged from 985,000 last year to 626,000 last May, and there has been virtually no rehiring. In nonelectrical heavy machinery, employment dropped from 1,738,000 last year to 1,486,000 last May, slid still farther in August. Chemical-industry employment dipped from last year's 845,000 to last May's 817,000 to August's 812,800. In steel, the United Steel Workers reported that the number laid off has risen from 212,000 in February...