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Word: spotting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tourists driving through Eastern Canada this summer will spot new blue-and-white service stations at many a crossroad and street corner. They are the gas and oil outlets of Canadian Petrofina, an aggressive subsidiary of La Compagnie Financière Beige des Pétroles, which broke into the market only three years ago and has already moved from nowhere to fourth place (behind Imperial, British American, and Shell) among Canada's 19 gas and oil distributors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Aggressive Newcomer | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

...delivery, and a quiet way of being funny that is like nobody else's. Unlike many TV comedians, he is likely to get better as he goes along, and NBC has proved its faith in him by giving him a three-year contract in the Sunday-at-8 spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

Andrew Sakacs, 43, had a pleasant Saturday outing a fortnight ago with his son and little grandson. He tramped through woods in sparsely settled Lockwood Valley in California's Ventura County, got in some target practice. Back in El Rio and getting undressed, he noticed a red spot, like a fleabite, on the inner side of his right ankle, but thought nothing of it. Feeling fit on Monday, Sakacs, a retired Navy chief petty officer, put in a full day's work as a mechanic on a water research project at the Port Hueneme naval base. That night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Plague Spot | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

...three years later developed the industry's first V-8 high-compression engine that kicked off the horsepower race. He moved to Chevy at a time when Ford was coming up fast. In 1954, when Ford and Chevy were neck and neck for the No. 1 spot for the first time in nearly a decade, Cole was completing a 150-h.p. engine to replace Chevy's traditional six-cylinder engine. On 1955's models, the new engines went a long way toward helping Chevy win back a substantial lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Youth for G.M. | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

...into this vile business. She's made of other clay"). But Author Faviell's dramatic documentation of the lawless legacy of the war and "the clash of old and new values in the mind of young Germany has the authority of her seven years of on-the-spot observation as the wife of a British official. Read simply as social prophecy, this novel disturbs with the suggestion that the seeds of a whole generation may already have been planted in the subsoil of neo-Naziism−bad soil, even if not bad seed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Lost Generation | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

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