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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Labor Statistics announced that its consumer price index had edged upward for the twelfth month in a row, with an August rise of .2 lifting the index to a record high of 121.0 (the 1947-49 average = 100) as compared with 116.8 a year earlier. Because of the relentless upcreep in prices, factory workers' average real wages actually shrank by nearly 1% from August 1956 to August 1957 despite an increase of $2 a week in take-home pay. And the U.S. inflation record, measured against the global scale (see chart), was moderate indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: The World's Crisis | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...caused many traumas this year. The "bug," in its relentless march, has not been ineffective in upsetting the Crimson soccer team. Captain Jim Shue, at center forward, was released from Stillman only yesterday after a "mild" case, and will probably be unable to play or practice seriously...

Author: By Jerome A. Chadwick, | Title: Varsity Soccer Team Faces Tufts Today in First Contest of Season | 10/3/1957 | See Source »

...exhausted bodies suffer abominably in the grip of barbed wire. Death incarnate descends its dark, all-powerful might into the midst of struggling children and takes war's most horrifying toll. Humanitarian aspirations and instincts as epitomized by Kollwitz in the spirit of motherhood suffer and die under the relentless blow of man's inhumanity...

Author: By Paul W. Schwartz, | Title: War and Peace | 10/3/1957 | See Source »

...relentless glimpse of the Korean war, directed with restraint by Anthony Mann, but hitting every theater seat with the shock of a grenade in a foxhole; with Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Sep. 23, 1957 | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

...compelled to agree to the Poles' demands. He was in the thick of the Hungarian action, where his slick manipulation was not enough: it took a tank-led invasion. The final repression was the Red army's idea, and at least once Marshal Zhukov showed himself relentless when the others hesitated. "We tried all we could to find another solution," Mikoyan said later to a Western diplomat. "I myself advised the acceptance of one Hungarian ultimatum after another, but I couldn't advise accepting the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Survivor | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

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