Word: mininger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wake for the Dead. Conservative civil servants learned to fear Templer's thin-lipped, tigerish sneer. Asians loved it when he looked a prevaricating Asian politician in the eye and said: "You're a stinker." Everywhere he went he was appalled by the indolent attitude of the Europeans...
Personality: Tall, solemn, methodical, pedagogic, Dulles has a lawyer's passion for detail, a lawyer's caution. He and his wife Janet have three children: John, a mining engineer; Lillias, now Mrs. Robert Hinshaw; Avery, who entered the Roman Catholic Church after service in the Navy in World...
When reveille sounds at any of the four major U.S. Air Force bases in Newfoundland these dark winter mornings, the G.I. hits the deck of a barracks built of local materials by local labor. He breakfasts on food bought in Newfoundland, and turns to on a work detail with tools...
Employment of Newfoundlanders at U.S. bases totals 3,500. They are being paid at the rate of $9,000,000 a year, which equals the payroll of the entire mining industry in the province. The U.S. will make some $2,500,000 worth of local purchases in the coming year...
Some industries were still far below their 1951 level (notably textiles and coal mining-each off 49%), but textiles had already begun a recovery. And the television industry, bouncing back from its slump, reported aggregate profit showing a 361.1% rise. Rearmament helped some other big rises: 105.7% for aircraft manufacturing...