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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent years almost 200 makers of appliances have merged or liquidated. Last year International Harvester shucked off its refrigerator and freezer branches. La March Deep Freeze, a household word discontinued business. Thor Corp. dropped its washing-machine business. TV manufacturers liquidated by the handful or so out to bigger companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Fight for Appliances | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

Final club members made only few comments about i.e.'s charge that the club system was doing an "injury" to the college by "deadening or destroying intellect in the members." According to Porcellian President Thor Thors '56, "Nobody is getting too excited about the article...

Author: By Blaise G. A. pasztory, | Title: i.e. Survey of Harvard Thought Draws Censure of College Groups | 6/1/1956 | See Source »

What was wrong in Iceland? Partly, the answer was domestic politics. Premier Olafur Thor's coalition government broke up over the issue. Then the Progressive Party, Iceland's second biggest party, joined with several minority parties to push the measure through the Althing. All this might be changed by new elections in June, depending on who wins (the Progressives have 22% of the vote, the Communists about 15%). The possibility that the whole thing might be reversed in June led the Pentagon and State Department to play down the importance of the withdrawal request. Yet the reason that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ICELAND: Americans, Go Home | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

...pantheon of guided missiles-which already has Falcons, Navajos, Snarks, Matadors and Side Winders-Air Force Secretary Donald A. Quarles last week added some powerful names: for the Air Force's two versions of the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile: Atlas and Titan; for the new Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile: Thor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Flight Log | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

...Jersey kindergarten music teacher. The young audience was enthralled. One of them, Tom Osher, then a fifth-grader, suggested to his music teacher. Charlotte Perso, that he and his classmates might be able to do a similar work for performance by the Cincinnati Symphony. The idea appealed to Conductor Thor Johnson, so two classes decided to follow the trip to the moon with their own trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Young Composers | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

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