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Word: mininger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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McGraw, disgusted that his partners "couldn't see over a pile of manure," split with them and took the streetcar magazine with him. Later, he met John Hill, onetime locomotive engineer who owned five trade papers (American Machinist, Power, Engineering News, Coal Age, Engineering and Mining Journal). Both McGraw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Big Tent | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

One-Way Passage. Polaroid's 3-D bonanza is only a wider opening in a vein it has been profitably mining for years. The phenomenon of polarized light has been a scientific curiosity for at least two centuries, but Land, as a teen-age youngster experimenting in his home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: 3-D Bonanza | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

After World War II the thinly populated (589,000) logging-mining-farming state of Idaho found itself surrounded east, west and south by a locust-like infestation of rattling slot machines. The one-armed bandits ran legally in Nevada and (until last year) in Washington, and clanged away illegally but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDAHO: Out, Damned Slot | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

Last week, at the end of the line-in the mining town of Kalgoorlie on the very edge of the great Australian desert-detectives at last caught up with Norman Morton-Stewart. He was down to his last eleven shillings elghtpence ha'penny. Charged with vagrancy and clapped into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Same Old Charmer | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

A schoolteacher from the little (pop. 5,000) mining town of Silver City, N.Mex. sat down and wrote a letter to Screen Actors Guild President Walter Pidgeon. A group of Mexican-American miners and their families, the teacher reported, were hard at work nearby on a semi-documentary movie. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: I.U.M.M.S.W. with Love | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

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