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...most U.S. metal producers the plan is merely a rear-guard action against the tariff increases that they feel are necessary. Anaconda's Chairman Clyde Weed called the subsidies "unfair and absurd." Said a Kennecott official: "I can't imagine the American taxpayer making contributions to Kennecott and Anaconda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Subsidies for Miners? | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

...again, felt an awful, strong urge to leave him. "Gee, I got my own battle to fight." Then Obie, just turned 23, five years out of high school, father of a ten-month old boy, father-to-be of a second child, turned around and crawled back into his rear cockpit and took control of the airplane on the chance that he might be able to fly it to safety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: How Obie Won His Medal | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

Reigning Cats & Dogs. In St. Louis County, Mo., State Weight Inspector Arthur J. Schneider stopped a truck, ordered the driver to rearrange his freight to take excess weight off the rear axle, sympathetically changed his mind when the driver told him the cargo was eight leopards, a cheetah, eight dogs and a panther...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 12, 1958 | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

...first race of the regatta, the Crimson Freshmen picked up a 21/2 length victory over Navy, while Penn was five lengths to the rear...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Heavyweight Crew Wins Adams Cup; Lightweights Sweep Elis, Tigers | 5/12/1958 | See Source »

Possessed by Duty. Major Philip Baldwin is a rear-echelon engineer officer with a fever for field duty. He volunteers to command a seven-man demolition team whose main target is the twisting mountain road along which all vehicles, including his own and the pursuing Japanese, must travel. The road is an undulating mass of Chinese refugees moving in grim lockstep with fear, famine and misery. In their eyes, the Americans are the dei ex machina shielded from fatality by the jeep, the SCR-300 radio and the K-ration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Chastened American | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

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