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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SLIDING-SCALE INSURANCE, with lower rates for big policies, will be tried by Northwestern Mutual Life, first major company to do so. First $5,000 of coverage sells for standard rate, but premium drops $1 per thousand per year on policies from $5,000 to $10,000, drops $1.25 on those over...
Says Editor Eliot: "American art has been shaped by American forces. Its viewpoints and subject matter are its own, and they open a thousand windows on our heritage. By reproducing these works, TIME has added an American wing to our 'museum of the mind...
...still to come. Even with U.S. help. Britain will have to learn to live with no more than three-quarters of her normal oil supply. Ordinary motorists will get only enough gas to carry them 200 miles a month. Gasoline rationing is already hurting new-car sales. One thousand auto workers have been laid off, and another 56,000 have had their working hours cut. Macmillan also raised the tax on oil and gasoline to an alltime high of 49? a gallon. This increase, together with a simultaneous price hike by the oil companies, drove the retail price of gasoline...
...Evans, grandson of Lije, is the central character of These Thousand Hills. He exemplifies the settlers of America's last frontier, the Mountain West, and the establishment there of the Cattle Kingdom. Lat begins his rise as a Montana rancher by breaking away from his religious, impoverished parents and signing up for a cattle drive from Pendleton through Boise to Fort Benton, Montana. In Montana, he turns his winnings in a horse race (Callie, his prostitute mistress loaning the initial capital) into a profitable ranch. The politically ambitious Lat must, however, renounce his shady past and marries a Hoosier schoolmistress...
...these faults were present in the other two works. Why is These Thousand Hills less powerful? Part of the answer lies in the fact that both The Big Sky and The Way West were built on Dick Summers, a nostalgic, self-sufficient mountain man, the finest character Guthrie has produced. But even more important, both books were given unity and direction by the utilization of physical movement through great distance in space. Guthrie conveyed this as successfully as did Tolstoy in War and Peace or Mark Twain in Huckleberry Finn. In These Thousand Hills he gave himself less opportunity...