Word: pense
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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One of the disadvantages of worshiping a living god is that he may bolt. This is what his supremely exalted omnipotence, Tibet's Dalai Lama, did when he heard that the Red Chinese army was approaching his capital in 1950. Persuaded to return, he found that the Communists had...
BALLPOINT PENS will be tested by the Post Office Department to replace the scratchy, ink-spilling nib pens. The department has shipped out 20,000 Scriptos, will chain them to desks in 17 cities, e.g., Chicago, Atlanta, St. Louis, use no chains in Boston, Pittsburgh, Detroit. Whether post offices adopt...
Without Tips. Even the surviving stores could not, with rare exceptions, stay in business without "extras"-greeting cards, fountain pens, records, etc. J. R. ("Jack") Cominsky, publisher of the Saturday Review, suggested to booksellers that they add travel bureaus, ticket bureaus and Western Union branches to stay afloat; he did...
Jimmy Carmichael started out in politics. He got his LL.B. from Georgia's Emory University ('33), he became a small-town (Marietta, Ga.) lawyer and went to the state legislature. After the war he ran for governor against Herman E. Talmadge, and was beaten under the state'...
Since World War II, Sweden has been plagued with high prices, inflation and a shortage of top-quality consumer goods. To put its economy to rights, the Swedish Ministry of Trade last week prescribed strong medicine: pour in cheap foreign goods to bring prices down. To attract imports from the...