Word: timed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anew book by Eric Hodgins, author of the Blandings novels, is an event. Doubly so when it is illustrated by the deft hand of Cartoonist Alan Dunn. This week Doubleday & Company brings out their combined work: Enough Time? The Pattern of Executive Life ($2.50), published in cooperation with TIME, the Weekly Newsmagazine. On this page...
...fine bill of health came at the right time, for piled at the door of the 69-year-old President were enough major problems to give a younger man the shakes. At the top of the heap was the steel strike, nearly four months old and blighting the general economy. Instead of reaching agreement under presidential and public pressure, as Ike had hoped, the industry and the United Steelworkers were digging in for a prolonged battle of principle (see The Economy). Digging in behind them were such major industries as copper, shipping, railroads and meat packing in what promised...
...moved to bring idealism and realism into line, warned the well-to-do that it was time to bring down the barriers and get on with the trade-or else...
...audit the Pentagon's spending for overseas forces and bases. Last month Anderson gave U.S. policy a new dollar-saving twist: the U.S. announced that, with few exceptions, dollars lent in the future to underdeveloped nations by the Development Loan Fund must be spent in the U.S. (TIME...
Stuart Symington's will to victory traces back to a special kind of poverty that he endured in childhood-not the numbing poverty of the slum poor but the stinging poverty of the semi-broke genteel. At the time of Stu's birth, his father was a teacher of Romance languages at Massachusetts' Amherst College. But he soon quit as a result of a quarrel with the college president, moved his family to New York, where he studied law at night, scraping a living by translating documents for export-import firms. A few years later, the family...