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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turkey, making a thorough checkup at the start of the new year, found itself in excellent shape. The U.S. has pumped $400 million into its bloodstream since the war. By diligently using these millions to expand its productive capacity, the Turks have tripled their gross national production. U.S. Mutual Security officials deliberately encouraged the Turks to spend their aid on economic expansion, which would return repeated dividends, instead of on direct military purchases. The country's resulting economic boom has brought $100 million more (a 17% increase) in government revenues in the last year, which in turn enables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Improving Health | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

Syracuse's Harvard Club displayed thorough Christmas spirit during the past vacation when it presented Charley Yeager, infamous point-scoring Yale manager, with a rocking chair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Alumni of Syracuse Give Rocking Chair to Yeager | 1/6/1953 | See Source »

...foreign, defense and finance ministers of the 14 NATO nations last week sought agreement on how much the West should spend on defense in 1953. The debate was wordy, but the sense of the meeting was plain: a majority of those present believe the time has come for a thorough reassessment of NATO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: The Slowdown | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

...will be unable to restrain himself from giving TIME (or LIME, whose slogan is, "If you can't read it-eat it!") the full treatment which is customary in his comic strip, Li'l Abner. Says he: "I'm surprised I haven't done a thorough job on it before, because it's a setup the whole country is familiar with." Then he adds with a thoughtful air: "I will inevitably do a complete massacre. The only way I can do a thorough job is with the gloves off. It's so easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 22, 1952 | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

Whatever the appearances, however, the result and the concommittants now under consideration are as thorough a perversion of liberal education as one could imagine. Coddling, protecting, and rigorously channeling undergraduates is the policy of small schools planted in distant woods, and the personal distortions it accomplishes have no place at a University. Of what use is it to a man's education that he is shielded from all those petty personal frictions which will afflict him for years to come? What chance do men have of maturing personally if committees here, committees there, committees every-where make all their social...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas Dirge | 12/19/1952 | See Source »

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