Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the higher-flying Democrats politicked at a national level last week, local leaders attending the Chicago convention were also busy with their own problems. A TIME correspondent, prowling a hotel lobby, overheard this conversation between Baltimore's broad and boisterous Mayor Tommy D'Alesandro and another Maryland delegate. Subject: Millard Tydings, hand-picked last spring to battle Republican John Marshall Butler for his old Senate seat, since hospitalized with a serious attack of shingles...
...take up its lines, put on its costume and give it life. Indeed, we are the only ones who can play it. The role is to spark the tremendous latent strengths in the region surrounding us to create a great power, which will then rise up to a level of dignity and undertake a positive part in building the future of mankind...
...taste for china figurines, once the playthings of Europe's princes, has largely descended to the level of the cheap knickknacks on a dime-store counter. Yet those minor masterpieces of the 18th century which survive today are attracting a growing band of devoted collectors willing to pay up to $15,000 apiece for their finds. One of the most successful, as the newly published catalogue of his Meissen china (Harvard University Press; $25) makes plain, is Manhattan's Irwin Untermyer...
SMALL PLANE BOOM pushed U.S. exports of light (up to 6,000 lbs.) civil aircraft 25% over last year's level in first half of 1956. Planemakers expect to sell nearly 900 light planes abroad for a total of $10.5 million...
HIGHER BEER PRICES for consumer will follow increases at wholesale level. New York breweries hiked prices 18? a case. Schlitz, largest U.S. producer, and other Milwaukee breweries will soon follow suit...