Word: mades
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...back on marriage that has come to grief, resist pity and show twinges of self-pity, talk of love and resist sex. The woman, it turns out, has an unfaithful husband; the man has a wife he played a part in driving insane. In the end after they have made love, she goes back to her husband and he has a flicker of hope for his wife...
...week bills at 4.5%, the highest point in history for its shortest-term borrowing, partly because only the week before it had drawn heavily on short-term funds with a $2 billion offer of 320-day bills at 4.86%. Bankers expect even greater pressure when a steel settlement is made and a rush for supplies and postponed expansion exerts new pressure on the money market...
...industry's last offer, required by the Taft-Hartley Act some time between Jan. 6 and Jan. 21. Out from the eleven negotiating steel companies went letters and brochures to each employee setting forth the industry's "final" offer (it can still make another), which was actually made fortnight ago (TIME, Nov. 30). Dave McDonald called it "a propaganda offer aimed at confusing the Steelworkers," and the union's official paper, Steel Labor, warned workers against bosses who go "out of their way for a pleasant 'Good morning, Joe,' " and "cheery letters from corporation presidents...
Blockade Runners. World War I only made Philips grow bigger faster. To circumvent the blockage of the North Sea, the company outfitted its own fleet of fast blockade-running ships. With the home market protected from competition, the brothers Philips steadily pushed into new lines, made X-ray tubes for Dutch physicians. Seeing radio coming, they were turning out receiver and even transmitter tubes by 1919. After Gerard retired in 1922, Anton aggressively expanded, set up Philips plants in most countries of the world. Today from Eindhoven, one of Europe's biggest company towns (pop. 160,000), Anton...
...child in the centrifuge stands for modern man in the society he has made. This is the metaphor at the core of this cruel, powerful picture from France, in which the New Wave of cinematic creation matches the high-water mark established by Black Orpheus (TIME, Nov. 16). Like that film, The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups) is the work of an unknown: a 27-year-old cinema critic named Francois Truffaut, who made the film for only $110,000. Last May the picture won him the Cannes Film Festival's award for the year's best...