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Dates: during 1950-1959
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New York. Philanthropist Nelson Rockefeller, 49, announced his candidacy for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, thereby throwing the gauntlet to GOPolitician Len Hall, ex-National Committee chairman, who had announced earlier, had been hoping for a clear field for the August G.O.P. convention. Rockefeller, who turned down pleas that he run...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Hot Stew | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

The professors criticized the Administration's faith in our ability to "talk our way into the road of prosperity." President Eisenhower's recent attempts to cajole business into offering the public more for its money and his pleas for labor to limit wage demands are insufficient to start a major...

Author: By Joe W. Shepard, | Title: Economists See Limited Recovery for Recession | 5/23/1958 | See Source »

Change of Heart. But at week's end, Nehru did another of his sudden turnabouts, and decided he would heed the pleas of his followers and, with no feeling of pleasure, remain at the unsteady helm of state. "In all humility," he announced, "I will not proceed to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Tired Man | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

For U.S. airlines entering the jet age, the No. I labor fight is over the third man in the cockpit in the new jetliners. Should he be a fully qualified pilot (making from $4,800 to $22,000 a year), like the two now in the cockpit, or a special...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Third-Man Theme | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

WITH the auto industry braked down, Detroit is the U.S.'s most recession-ridden big city (metropolitan pop. 3,650,000). Across the nation unemployment averages 6.7% of the labor force; in Detroit the figure comes to 15.1%. Some 230,000 Detroiters are jobless, and 40,000 of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: RECESSION IN DETROIT | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

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