Word: thins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House, 251-54, passed a bill to create an independent, three-man federal commission to think up ways of helping the ailing, coal industry. Complained Iowa Republican H. R. Gross: "No matter how thick or thin you slice it, this creates a new agency when we already are surfeited with them...
...Room, but at her best-in Oh, I Can't Sit Down and It Ain't Necessarily So-she gives the familiar lyrics a delightfully carbonated tingle all her own. Previn and his men swing behind her as discreetly as a trio of hula dancers skating on thin...
...Thin Man (NBC. 9:30-10 p.m.). Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk tangle in their debonair fashion with a character who claims to be the last of the West's badmen...
Broken Journey. John Calvin was 27 and a thoroughly skilled philosopher-theologian on the July day in 1536 when he first arrived in Geneva-a tired, thin young man of middle height with a pale, finely chiseled face, a long nose and a pointed beard. On his way from Paris to Strasbourg, where he planned to settle down and study, he was detoured through Geneva by military operations, intended to stay in the city only overnight. But a red-bearded Protestant named William Farel, who was having his troubles advancing the Reformation in Geneva, had heard of the brilliant Frenchman...
Helping the bull markets is the fact that governments publicly encourage share ownership by the little man. The West German government has begun to sell shares of state-held companies to middle-class investors in a bold step toward denationalization (TiME. April 13). But markets are so thin that a little buying can send a stock to giddy heights. Four-fifths of West German corporate stock, for example, are locked in institutional portfolios. Companies are reluctant to float more because of heavy taxes. Daimler-Benz has 93% of its stock in the hands of institutions and other companies...