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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Above the Battle. Just as the President's congressional advisers had expected, thousands of letters, telegrams, phone calls swamped the White House and Capitol Hill. Two hours after Ike signed off, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany took to the air to argue that the Landrum-Griffin bill was "a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Square Deal for Labor? | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

The Good Chute. As the Crusader lost altitude and sank into the clouds, .Rankin put his life in the hands of the ingenious engineers who had sweated for years to anticipate his problem. He pulled two overhead handles to trigger a fast sequence: 1) a canvas windscreen came down over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The Nightmare Fall | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

Working from the moment he stepped out of a commercial airliner (Eastern Air Lines) from New York to the moment he boarded another (Pan American) five days later, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller convinced the governors' conference at San Juan, Puerto Rico that he is a deadly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Rocky in the Ring | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

In Denver's Allendale Heights suburban development this week, Homebuilder Jack C. Hoerner (rhymes with corner), World War II test pilot, put finishing touches on the demonstrator model of 40 three-bedroom houses with a unique sales gimmick: a 12-ft. by 14-ft. fallout shelter built into the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVIL DEFENSE: Right to Die | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

The fire engines had been headed for a minor flare-up in some trash barrels a few feet from where Rutherford "had parked his death-laden truck. Assistant Fire Chief Roy McFarlane thought he had things under control, sent one fireman to the hospital with burned hands. City Patrolman Don...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Overnight Parking | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

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