Word: pastings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...annual features of TIME'S news coverage is the Year-End Review, in which the editors scan the U.S. economy for the year just past, and present a forecast for the year ahead. Over the last decade nothing has loomed larger in the financial news than Wall Street's bull, long a symbol of a rising stock market. But to TIME'S editors the bull does not mean Wall Street alone. He is also a symbol of the power of the U.S. economy. In the past ten years TIME'S readers have seen five bulls...
...anti-Communist Asian forces ready to fight for what they have. Military-assistance investments of many years were justified and paid out in the Quemoy crisis of 1958. The second and never-to-be-forgotten lesson is that the Communist intentions remain as they have been in the past-to eliminate the U.S., all its forces and influences from Asia, and gradually blot up the small countries. If they are ever successful in this fundamental objective of causing U.S. withdrawal, the map of the world can be remade in weeks...
VENEZUELAN politics have been Rómulo Betancourt's life for the past 30 years, and for 21 of them he has been forced to live and work either outside the law or outside Venezuela. In his nine years of legal politicking, he built Acción Democrática, the strongest popular political party Venezuela has ever known, and served as the country's provisional President for two years. In office he worked out the world's first 50-50 government-company split of oil profits and oversaw the first truly free election in Venezuelan history...
...from 26¾ to 86, Raytheon from 22 to 62⅝, Fairchild Camera from 18⅞ to 64¾, General Transistor from 17 to 51. But to many Wall Streeters, even such high prices seem cheap when sales and earnings are zooming. Explains one broker: "Current earnings are already past history. If you want to participate in growth, you have...
...ONCE AND FUTURE KING, by T. H. White. In a giant labor of patriotic love, British Author White gives old King Arthur a likelier dressing-up than all the mythmakers of the past...