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Word: provisionals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most College students are willing to try the porter plan, but on condition that they can change back if they don't like it. The University has put no such provision in the program.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Maids May Take War Plant Work | 2/23/1951 | See Source »

By 1923 he was one of the corporation's favored sons, a man marked for tempering and testing under the hard eye of G.E.'s stern President Gerard Swope himself. A year later Bill Ruete died. Just before he passed away, he said: "You know, Charlie, that stickpin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOBILIZATION: The Man at the Wheel | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

As originally set up, DiSalle's OPS was supposed to lay down price controls and presumably enforce them. But ever since DiSalle's big price freeze, Attorney General Howard McGrath had been licking his chops over all those potential lawsuits. Suddenly, last week, the Administration trotted out a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Slow Burn | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

U.S. STEEL CORP. sold more steel (22.6 million tons) than in any other year, netted a thumping $215 million v. $165 million in 1949. Though sales were 130% above 1917, Big Steel's profits were still slightly below that record World War I year. Reasons: high taxes ($234 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: Full Measure | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

One member of the subcommittee at the same time told the CRIMSON that the provision that all "available" men over 19 go before the 18-year-olds was intended only to make certain that the higher age group had been completely milked first. It might, however, stop the Department from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Defense Spokesmen to Go Before Senate Committee | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

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