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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WALL Street Analyst Washington Dodge predicts a great bull market for "sometime in 1954" which will lift the Dow-Jones industrial average, now 270.88 "comfortably over 300." Other Dodge predictions: New York Central stock, now 25, will be selling at 37; Du Pont, now 91, at 125; Western Union, now 44⅛, at 88; Bethlehem Steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TIME CLOCK, Jul. 13, 1953 | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

...part of their peace offensive, the Communists have begun to lift the Iron Curtain that has kept almost all newsmen out of Russia and its satellites since the start of the cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Holes in the Curtain | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

...turn of Bloch's co-counsel, New Yorker John Finerty, an old hand at celebrated cases (he argued for Sacco and Vanzetti, aided Tom Mooney). Finerty assailed the judgment against the Rosenbergs as "fraud" arranged by a "crooked" prosecution. Rebuked by the court, he retorted: "If you lift the stay [of the execution], then . . . God save the U.S. and this honorable court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: The Last Appeal | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

...varsity's 8 to 0 victory over the Wanderers' in the second game was probably the season's major upset, especially in the lift of the Wanderers' 23 to 8 win against the Crimson in Bermuda. Johnny Nicholas and Dike Hyde played outstandingly, as did the entire team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Netmen Beat Blue, Bow to Tigers; Ruggers Whip Favored 'Wanderers' | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

...could tell them how to make a supersonic airplane fly safely at slow speeds, i.e., below 650 m.p.h. At Mach 2, very small wings will give sufficient lift. If they are made bigger, to give lift at low speed, they stir up too much drag. So the tiny wings of the X3, designed for efficiency and minimum drag at very high speed, make the ship unstable and cranky when it is flying below the speed of sound. This is one reason why Bill Bridgeman quietly denounced the X-3 as a "nasty little beast." When he does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bill & the Little Beast | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

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