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Word: lesters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prefabricated housing was still haunting RFC last week. Despite its disastrous experience with Lustron, where it poured a cool $37 million down a rathole (TIME, Sept. 12), RFC had lent about $2,400,000 to Reliance Homes of Lester, Pa. The money was' to be used to finance mass production of a low-cost, ribbed-aluminum, factory-built house. The three-bedroom house "package" came in seven sections, could be assembled on the site by a crane and five workmen (see cut) in 1½ hours. But Reliance found that the house, boxlike though it was, cost around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Death Watch | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

Crusaders' highly advertised star, slim, 6-ft.-1-in. Bob Cousy, was ill with grippe caused no visible slackening in pace. The platoons of 40-year-old Coach Lester Sheary carried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Platoons of Crusaders | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

Item: India's Jawaharlal Nehru carried the ball for full & friendly recognition of Communist China. Canada's Lester Pearson was for going slow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Pals | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

...Debate Council yesterday elected the following men as officers for the year 1950: President, William C. Becker '51; Vice-President, A. Werner Pleus '51; Treasurer, Norman M. Hinerfeld '51; Home Secretary, Bruce Lane '52; Recording Secretary, Lester L. Ward '52; Publicity Director, Julian I. Edison '51; Director of Comps, John G. Morey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debaters Elect | 1/17/1950 | See Source »

...rescued. Of the ward's 68 patients, 39 women patients and Nurse Neal were dead. After the injured were tended and the funeral services arranged, the investigators would come, asking a pertinent question: why had the 60-year-old hospital building not been made fireproof? Fire Chief Lester Schick said that almost a year before he had urged the installation of a sprinkler system, but nothing was done about it. At Christmas, for the first time in years, hospital authorities had decided against having a lighted Christmas tree in the corridor of the mental ward. Reason: they feared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Death Before Dawn | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

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