Word: resulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...organize the 24,000 members of the New York police department.* Said Teamster Henry Feinstein, 53, who holds down an $8,500-a-year city job as supervisor of transportation in Manhattan: Within a fortnight he would throw pickets around police headquarters, police depots and supply stations. Hoped-for result: fellow Teamsters would refuse to deliver police supplies, and-as Feinstein put it-Police Commissioner Stephen Kennedy (TIME, July 7) would "get a taste of Teamster economic force and pressure. The commissioner," said Feinstein, with considerable relish, "will freeze in his office...
...dramatic measure of Europe's recovery from the catastrophic economic consequences of World War II. Part of Europe's new confidence in its own currency rested on a decreasing dominance of the dollar. Last year U.S. imports ran considerably above U.S. exports, with the result that $2.2 billion in gold and half a billion in dollars flowed out of the U.S. into foreign treasuries. Armed with increased gold reserves and with the knowledge that the German mark or Swiss franc is just about as desirable a currency as the inflation-dented U.S. dollar, all of Europe...
...major in World War I) and mild-seeming architect of Britain's 1945 Labor revolution, was in a mood to speak out; he was under the impression that the go-minute interview would not be shown on TV until after his death. But last week, as a result of some "fast talking" by his interviewer (and old friend) Francis Williams, Lord Attlee agreed to a 45-minute version to be shown over the BBC on his 76th birthday. Among his tart but mellow observations on the men he has known...
...Communist Gomulka has been trying vainly to lure the peasants back into what his government calls "cooperatives." Biggest lures: fat, long-term loans to any group that wants to socialize itself; cut-rate machinery and fertilizer, plus state money to buy livestock and state land if needed. As a result, 499 collectives were formed in 1958-but in the same year 470 were dissolved. Typical example: five farmers near Warsaw announced that they intended to form a cooperative farm. The government lent them funds to buy pigs and offered land to raise them on. Starting with eight brood sows...
...embassy does capture much of the magnificence of an ancient Indian taj. As in the temples and palaces of old, most of the work was done by hand, each finished piece transported by Indian artisans from makeshift workshops on the grounds. Stone himself was awe-struck by the result. "Breathtaking," he would say to visitors. "Simply beautiful, simply beautiful...