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Word: unites (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then there's the matter of headlights. The modern car has a small, self-contained unit that will fit anything from a Jeep to a Cadillao 75. Among older cars class and headlight size go together. When one gets into the higher grade of vehicles the huge lenses and reflectors in their polished housing look like something borrowed from a light cruiser. No mistaking the proles for their betters, even at night...

Author: By Robert Marsh, | Title: Venerable Heaps Journey Homeward | 8/16/1951 | See Source »

...Rochemont lives and works in Portsmouth, N.H., which played Eaton Falls in his latest picture. His production unit is full of young men, e.g., Associate Producer Borden Mace is 31; one of De Rochemont's insistent beliefs is that Hollywood's hardened arteries need young blood. Now in preparation (under a financing-releasing deal with Columbia Pictures that gives De Rochemont firm control of his "moviemaking): Walk East on Beacon, a thriller, based on FBI files, about attempts to steal a top U.S. secret whose existence the public still does not suspect. Last time De Rochemont made that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 13, 1951 | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

Under the plan, a European soldier would be recruited on a national basis, uniformed and equipped by the European army, organized into a national unit but trained together with units from other countries. He would be commanded by officers of his own nationality but would ultimately take orders from Eisenhower and his NATO staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: German Rearmament? | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

...bureau's experts will divide the land into "farm units" (40 to 160 acres according to the quality of the soil) big enough to support a family comfortably. No buyer may have water for more than one unit. If Congress continues this policy, * the bureau hopes to see the whole area divided into prosperous one-family farms, with none of the gang-worked "factories-in-the-field" so conspicuous in other irrigated parts of the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Endless Frontier | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

Under President Dumas, Southern Bell expanded faster than any other A. T. & T. unit. Since the war it has put $100 million into new rural lines; its revenues have doubled (to $286 million), its telephones increased from 1.7 million to 3.5 million. When Dumas moves into A. T. & T.'s No. 2 spot in New York (estimated salary: $115,000 a year), he will bring with him two reminders of the South. One is the Confederate flag that he keeps in his Atlanta office. The other is his drawl. Says he: "I don't know whether they will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Second Man | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

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