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Word: leicas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evidence of the old Ford, the Oriental rugs, the Woodstock typewriter on which some of the secret telegrams were typed, the Leica camera with which the rest were photographed, the Hiss-written memos and bills of sale, the pumpkin films,* the prothonotary warbler, and many other items is overwhelming cumulative evidence of Hiss's guilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Publican & Pharisee | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

...mink coat at the very time that mink became suddenly unfashionable on Democratic women's shoulders. Baynton said that the coat was merely borrowed for two months from the wife of his old friend Harold Horowitz, whom Baynton made $26,000-a-year president of E. Leitz, Inc. (Leica cameras), another OAP enterprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Super Gravy Train? | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

...playing carpet bowls in the state parlor with one of his four children, or singing with a group of Whiffenpoofs about the fire ("I'm an honorary member"). And on his way to his office in Woodbridge Hall, he would still stop now & then to level his Leica, snap a camera shot of a student, a building or a professor. But once in his office, seated at his 18th Century slant-top desk, Whitney Griswold proved he knows how to govern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Steady Hand | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

These pictures were taken with a motored Leica camera, which takes a series of 12 shots automatically every eight seconds. The photographer was Gilbert H. G. Coville...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Action Shots Speak Louder Than Words of Cornell Power | 10/17/1950 | See Source »

...growing revival of export trade in both Germany and Japan. Two weeks ago, the South African government ordered 100 steam locomotives from Krupp of Essen, who offered a lower bid and swifter delivery than any one of a score of U.S., British and other competing firms. Rosenthal china and Leica cameras are once again in the world's markets. A British toy manufacturer complained that the Germans are undercutting his prices on teddy bears and white rabbits in Cyprus, offering stiff competition in Canada and Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Peacetime Axis | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

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