Word: six
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Royce rolled into the heart of the great grey city. A small Stars and Stripes fluttered from the left fender; the license plate read "U.S.A. 1." From hundreds of thousands of Londoners thronging outside rows of semidetached brick houses, leaning out of town mansions, tumbling out of pubs, standing six deep in Hyde Park, the shouts went up: "Glad to see you, Ike," "Welcome," "Good for you, Ike." As the Rolls-Royce rolled into Grosvenor Square, from which General Eisenhower had directed his victorious World War II armies (G.I.s called the square "Eisenhower Platz"), a husky, shirtsleeved man said...
...same time, banks find themselves with relatively less money to lend. In the nation's mutual savings banks, total deposits rose $585 million in the first six months this year to $34.6 billion -but the growth during the same period last year was $1.3 billion. Instead of putting and keeping their money in savings accounts, people are attracted by higher returns in the stock market or Government bonds. The rate of growth of time deposits has been falling off because corporations, state and local governments, and foreign depositors can now get nearly 3½% on a 91-day Treasury...
Died. Theresa Helburn, 72, tiny (5 ft.), hard-driving director (one of six) of the Theatre Guild since its founding in 1919. co-director after 1939, who gave up middling playwriting and dramatic criticism to rescue the Broadway stage from commercial mediocrity in the 1920s by tenaciously putting on demanding works by such authors as G. B. Shaw, Eugene O'Neill, Robert Sherwood and William Inge, was the first to pair Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne on the stage (The Guardsman, 1924); of a heart attack"; in Norwalk, Conn. The Theatre Guild never recaptured its glories...
...trials that included all the cliches of racial conflict: openly bigoted judges, brutal cops, a sullen courthouse mob. The case aroused nationwide protests against the South's double standard of justice, encouraged the Communists to exploit the racial bitterness and provoke a bloody race incident in Alabama. After six years in prison, Roy Wright and three of his companions were finally freed after the state dropped charges. Under public pressure, four others were eventually paroled, and one escaped...
...year-old Crane Co., the nation's largest maker of valves, pipes and pipe fittings, last spring (TIME, May 11), employees braced for a shakeup. They were hardly prepared for what followed. Last week Crane announced the resignation of Norman F. Garrett, the fourth of its six vice presidents to go in three months. Five directors have resigned since Evans took over as board chairman, paring the board down to six men. Burly, rough-talking Evans, 48. has fired at least 2,000 of Crane's 18.000 employees, closed 50 of Crane's 130 branch outlets, sold...