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...Soak business (in violation of campaign pledges of no new taxes) by jumping state levies on natural gas by 250%, on sulphur (Louisiana is the nation's second-biggest sulphur producer) by 200%, on timber by 100%. When industry spokes men warn that such taxes will stifle Louisiana's economy, Earl challenges them to go some place else if they don't like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Last of the Red-Hot Poppas | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

...knows, it is the most powerful in operation. Engines up to 5 ft. in diameter can be tested in its 10 ft.-by-10 ft. throat, fed with air rushing past at Mach 3.5 (1,800 m.p.h.). To move so much air at this speed requires monstrous fans that soak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Biggest Tunnel | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

...beating received last week at the hands of Deerfield, this afternoon at 3 p.m. on the Business School Field. Dave Rintels, who scored the one goal against Deerfield, and Dick Eldridge, who assisted, will lead the attack. Captain Dick Pille will nurse his dislocated shoulder, and Paul Keaney will soak his sprained ankle--both relics from the Deerfield fiasco...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Sports | 4/21/1956 | See Source »

...Tomorrow makes womem melt their white lace collars and soak their pink handkerchiefs at the Astor. Susan Hayward gives a sensitive portrayal of the life of singer and ex-alcoholic Lillian Roth. Shows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEEKEND EVENTS | 3/24/1956 | See Source »

...Konjiki Yasha (Golden Demon); written at century's turn, it was one of the first Japanese novels ever set in the troubled here and unmitigated now, and it spurred the rising revolution in Japanese letters. As the picture tells it, the story is well calculated to soak as many crying towels as any other late Victorian romance. Miya (Fujiko Yamamoto) and Kan-ichi (Jun Negami), an orphan, grow up together in her father's house, fall in love, and are properly betrothed. A rich young man appears and speaks for Miya's hand. Her parents, who later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 30, 1956 | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

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