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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...family gatherings. He has made 81 trips abroad, including five to the U.S. ("Free enterprise has given the American citizen," says Erhard, "a living standard and a chance for self-expression unparalleled in the rest of the world.") His energy is prodigious, his persistence monumental. On one four-week swing through Latin America ("the continent of the future"), Erhard outlasted two aides, who split the 18-hour daily duty of keeping up with him, outate, outdrank and outtalked his hosts in eight countries, and sparked a tremendous interest in doing business with Germany. Nothing defeats him. Says an associate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Engineer of a Miracle | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

BIGGEST AUTO DEAL in history will give Hertz Rent-A-Car System $60 million worth of 1958 models. Hertz will buy (for cash) 19,737 autos, three-quarters of them from General Motors, also plans to buy another 11,000 after April 1 for $33.5 million more. To swing deal, Hertz will sell 15,000 of its 1957 cars for around $35 million, boost its revolving bank credit from $50 million to $65 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TIMECLOCK, Oct. 28, 1957 | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

Chairmen of the Phillips Brooks House tenth annual Fall Blood Drive hope to top last fall's total of 992 donated pints. The current drive is in full swing, with solicitors seeking pledges in the House dining rooms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Seeks Pledges For Blood Donations | 10/23/1957 | See Source »

...barely possible that some Harvard students do not realize that a municipal election campaign is in full swing. The men and women who are running, however, are every day more aware that they are in a fight...

Author: By Alfred FRIENDLY Jr., | Title: Elections Feature Bitterness, Comedy | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...realize that the corrupt Dave Becks and Jimmy Hoffas, snorting their contempt of public opinion, have done more to hurt the workingman's cause than any outside antilabor crusade in history. With Congress on the move, they can only hope that the pendulum of public indignation will not swing them back to the miseries of their beginnings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Legislation Ahead | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

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