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...electric razors or Lincoln Continental Mark IIs (there is a waiting list in Houston, where the delivered price is $10,700). There are shortages of scrap metal, aluminum, copper, newsprint, canned salmon, seats on airlines from Manhattan to Miami, and selenium.* There are too few salesmen, secretaries, schoolteachers, diemakers, loom fixers, machine-tool operators, mechanics, household servants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: The Scarcities of Plenty | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

...always been a great object lesson to me, a monitor of the fundamental flux, of the loom of nature not being on the human scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cafe Talk of a Sage | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

Sounds coming from Democrats in the South, however, do not indicate that conservative sentiment for Harriman will run very deep. When the New York governor began to loom as a presidential prospect, Louisiana's Democratic Senator Allen J. Ellender cried: "Talk about giveaways; Harriman would go Eisenhower. Truman and Roosevelt one better. He would give away the Indian chief on top of the Capitol dome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Ave & the Magic Mountain | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...best, Tom Barber is very good indeed-particularly in its down-to-earth descriptions of the things that loom large in every boy's life-home, parents, friends, hobbies, animals, books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Winter Never Comes | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

Personal and family considerations would loom larger; few if any doctors would recommend the presidency of the U.S. for a recovered coronary case; even if Ike were willing to make the sacrifice, the people would view his situation with disquiet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Eight Words | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

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