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Word: put (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wake of the Russian moon triumph, U.S. spacemen had two failures and one success last week. A Jupiter rocket blew up, and a Thor Able navigation satellite failed to orbit. The bright spot was the last of the much-criticized Vanguards, which put a 50-lb. payload in a high orbit expected to last 30 years or more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Eight Out of Nine | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...Badgered by a bad back, and no longer able to throw the long ball, cleft-chinned, curly-haired Quarterback Ronnie ("Golden Boy") Knox, 24, quit the Toronto Argonauts in Canada's rugged Big Four, thereby put an end to one of football's most unfulfilled and peripatetic careers (three high schools, two colleges, four pro teams), which had largely been botched by the boisterous stage-mothering of stepfather Harvey Knox. "Football is a game for animals," said Ronnie. "I like to think I'm above that." Dreaming of higher things, Ronnie allowed he might toss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Sep. 28, 1959 | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. last week laid off 521 workers at two Midwestern plants, will drop 1,200 more by the end of the month. At General Motors Corp.'s AC Spark Plug Division plant in Flint, Mich, and Harrison Radiator Division in Lockport, N.Y., 900 employees were put on a four-instead of a regular five-day week to conserve steel for use by divisions with less inventory. Some companies with big inventories were in trouble; they were running out of specific types, as shortages among suppliers cut off vital parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Squeeze on the Nation | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...high cost of adding the Valiant and changing over to 1960 models will put Chrysler in the red for the third quarter, but the company expects to match the loss with fourth-quarter profits, assuming the steel strike does not cut production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Chrysler's Optimism | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...Viet Nam and poor fiscal management, France was close to financial collapse when Jacobsson hustled to the rescue. He arranged a package of $655 million in credit from the Fund, the European Payments Union and the U.S. With the loan went some detailed recommendations on how France could put its fiscal house in order. It did so well that after De Gaulle came to power he was able to devalue and stabilize the franc. At other times, Jacobsson rescued the Danes, Dutch, Japanese, Turks, Spanish, Peruvians, and Argentines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock: World Currency Cop | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

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