Word: nov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next Nov. 7, the revolution's 36th anniversary, Upper Row will be back to its historic use as one of Moscow's biggest shopping centers. In its Czarist heyday half a century ago, the Upper Row-one of three huge sandstone arcades, three stories high and glass-roofed, newly built at a cost of $3,000,000-boasted 1,000 shops. Came the revolution, the end of private industry and the proliferation of bureaucracy: the shops eventually became offices...
...land reform may prove harder to bring off than his nationalization of Bolivian tin (TIME, Nov. 10). Aside from the danger of violence between landlords and peasants, there is an admitted risk that the Indians, once they own land, will grow just enough for their needs, leaving Bolivia (which spends 35% of its national income for imported food) hungrier than ever. Said Paz Estenssoro to the Indians at Ucareña: "Now that the land is yours, I ask you to carry out your part by growing more." Donning a native cap himself, he then sprinkled some drops of chicha...
...biggest lines of low-calorie foods is made by Mrs. Tillie Lewis' Flo-till Products, Inc. of California (TIME, Nov. 19, 1951). A year ago she brought out a complete line of low-calorie foods sweetened with saccharin and pectin instead of sugar. The products-ten fruits, four salad dressings, three jellies, four puddings, four gelatins, a chocolate topping-did so well (1953 sales are estimated at $8,000,000) that Flotill will soon add a low-calorie liquid sweetener, ketchup, maple syrup and soup...
...England textile companies will not find it so easy to move to the nonunion South following a National Labor Relations Board ruling last week. It ordered Mount Hope Finishing Co., which closed its North Dighton, Mass, plant after the C.I.O. Textile Workers won an election two years ago (TIME, Nov. 19, 1951), to rehire 690 employees it had laid off, give them traveling expenses to jobs in Mount Hope's new plant in Butner, N.C., and pay back wages of almost...
...Buffalo, N.Y. last week was his first such assignment since becoming chairman of the board last July. MacArthur soon found his position under fire from a brash stockholder named Lewis D. Gilbert, who claimed to represent 3,800 shares, and makes a business of heckling at annual meetings (TIME, Nov...