Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pony Shed. After that hot, sticky summer, remembering the shady trees of Pleasantville, they decided to move there. They found a $25-a-month "studio"-a single room above Manhattan Public Relations Man. Pendleton Dudley's garage-and used it as a bedroom, sitting room and office. The Wallaces cooked on a two-burner gas stove in the corner, washed in a stall shower in the garage below...
When Wallace bought a huge old desk and moved it-with a secretary-into their already cramped quarters, Lila rented an empty pony shed next to the garage for $10 a month, and turned it into the Digest's office. When Ralph Henderson, a jungle-born son of missionaries, dropped in from nearby White Plains to see what the little magazine was like, the Wallaces hired him as business manager, soon made him an editor. They later hired Harold Lynch, an assistant Episcopal rector, to handle the money. The Digest soon outgrew the pony shed, and spread all over...
...last September, when they assembled at Ottawa, delegates of the twelve NATO nations had shed some illusions and prepared to scuttle some plans. Where they had expected to have 30 divisions in fairly good shape, they had the skeletons of only a dozen, perhaps 15. Of these, only the six divisions sent over by the U.S. stood anywhere near fighting trim. Most of the other divisions in NATO's army had only one battalion of artillery apiece where six apiece were planned. There should have been 2,500 U.S. tanks on hand, but there were only 500. So busy...
Then there is the Bait and Bullet section, the Ledyard Canoe Club with 16 boats and a shed, the Mountaineering Club. Dartmouth Underground or the Speleological Club for Spelunkers which explores caverns, and the Natural History Club...
...idea for the show grew out of our experience with the telecasts of the Kefauver hearings, when TIME correspondents reported background on the testimony as each new witness shed more light on U.S. crime. But in San Francisco this week, the speeches and formalities of the conference, even the provisions of the treaty, will be less important than the pressures on the nations concerned and the world's power situation as it readjusts to Japan's new independence. To focus on the main elements of this news, Your Stake in Japan will go far outside the conference building...