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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly a decade the U.S. has known its enemy to be ruthless, wily, flexible.and, in the main, successful. Communist success is ascribed partly to U.S. blunders and hesitations, partly to the enemy's freedom from scruples. But lack of moral restraint is often the product of detachment from reality. Last week the Kremlin demonstrated-again-the weakness that lies at its heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: At the Heart | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

...Production of the show would have been completely impossible without financial support. The Club is already doing "The Seagull" this spring, Smith noted, and it could not have undertaken another major product without a guarantee to cover any losses the musical might incur...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC to Produce Its First Musical With Outside Aid | 2/17/1955 | See Source »

Arms v. Men. The phrase "significantly greater" may be the understatement of the year, going by the report's own statistics. At $155 billion, the gross national product of Russia and her European satellites is less than one-quarter of the $690 billion gross national product of the U.S., Canada and Free Europe. Soviet production is expected to grow slightly faster than U.S. production (5% v. 4% a year), but even if it doubles by 1970, it will still be less than two-thirds of the U.S.'s present G.N.P...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Sinews of Peace | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

Then, looking ahead from 1955 to 1965, the President made a prediction which eloquently capped his hearty confidence in the nation's economic health. Within ten years, he said, the gross national product, now $360 billion, will soar over the half-trillion* mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Half a Trillion | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...other-and probably both. Last year, Congress rewrote the tax laws, in part to "simplify" them. The internal revenue bureau proudly said that it was going to make things much easier for the taxpayer to make his report by issuing new and "simplified" forms. The final product? Form 1040! Save us from simplicity! Form 1040 not only contains the normal gobbledygook of tax forms, it has added some more, among which that of schedule J, "Exclusion and credit for dividends received from qualifying domestic (U.S.) corporations,"is a beaut. This isn't a tax form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judgments & Prophecies, Jan. 31, 1955 | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

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