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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plane had landed at McGuire because the Port of New York Authority has banned all jets except the comparatively quiet French Caravelle (not yet in regular use, but cleared for Idlewild) from New York-area airports. The Authority refused to make an exception unless the plane passed a sound test, which the Russians refused to permit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ploy in the Sky | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

Despite these portents, businessmen will not be certain of a bigger-than-seasonal fourth-quarter pickup unless there is also a sharp rise in new orders to whittle down fat inventories. Inventories are now about $4 billion higher than at the same time last year; manufacturers, who added $250 million a month to inventories during the first half of 1957, piled on $300 million in July. While the sales-to-inventory ratio ($1 to $1.86) stood close to the same level as twelve months ago, the lofty stocks mean that a better-than-seasonal autumn pickup in demand will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Autumn Upturn | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

...dock he sat uncomfortably, gazing dazedly at the three-judge tribunal, his onetime swagger gone. When the charge was read out, Chief Judge Yuzo Kawachi summoned Girard to the witness stand and beamed at him like a benign headmaster. "You don't have to answer any questions unless you want to," said Kawachi. "Is there anything you want to say?" Girard said no, and went back to his seat. Judge Kawachi recalled him to the stand. "You have nothing to say? Can you point out facts in the charge that you do not think are correct?" Girard conferred with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Prisoner in the Dock | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

Last week a rubber-products company, a soft-drink bottling works and the national airline were shut down, bringing the strike total since last January to more than 175. Close to 5,000 employees of the government-owned telephone company voted to strike this week unless wages are boosted. Ranging from five minutes to five months, the strikes cost the country an estimated 6,200,000 man-hours and uncounted millions of dollars in productivity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: URUGUAY: Not-so-Welfare State | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

England Mutual Life Insurance Co. called its tightly packed offset paper The Spare Wheel ("For Use in Emergencies Only"), noted on Page One that its 30-odd news items a day, "unless otherwise indicated, are furnished via the international wires of the United Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Blackout | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

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