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Not in six years had the profits of U.S. industry, hard hit by taxes, rising costs and fewer sales, made as poor a showing as in 1952's first quarter. Before taxes, they were the highest (estimated: $42.5 billion) of any year except 1951's alltime record; afterward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Worst since 1946 | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

Rarely does the ex-President let the story of his twelve years in Washington get in the way of statistical detail, but occasionally a light note slips in, e.g., the time that hornyhanded Senator Norbeck of South Dakota, in the midst of a powerful political delivery at dinner, placed his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Before the Hurricane | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

The question of who owns the marginal lands does indeed remain in dispute, but the crucial issue is actually who will manage the land and use the oil revenue. Since paramount rights in the areas under consideration are vested in the United States, an attempt to grab them for the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NAME-CALLING | 4/9/1952 | See Source »

"This is based on use levels proportionately and is in the market test sense. We now have a quantitative framework with marginal qualitative allocations to formalize the procedure for further refining and implementing of our objectives."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Bafflegab | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

Cry Imperialism. Last January U.S. Ambassador Merle Cochran sent the Mutual Security Pact offer across to Foreign Minister Ahmad Subarjo, duly received it back with a few marginal alterations by Indonesia. Now that the Mutual Security Agency has replaced the Economic Cooperation Administration, a few strings had been attached by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Born Yesterday | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

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