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DECLINE HERE? DON'T BELIEVE IT! headlined the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on Page One last week. Other newspapers from Seattle to Savannah were doing their unlevel best to bull their way through one of the nation's biggest-and most botched-running stories: the recession. Though more than 50.000 workers are out of jobs in Georgia's four largest cities, the Atlanta Journal has zealously kept the state's slump off the front page, and, until last week, even banned the word recession from the paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Silver-Lining the Slump | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...seven years since he wrote a novel, four years since he retired to Marion. Va. to run two country newspapers. Sensitive as a weathervane to the intellectual current of the day, but dizzied beyond his normal bewilderment by conflicting winds of doctrine, he has been doing his unlevel best to understand and express what, if anything, the U. S. is driving at. Though he has always sympathized with the individual Americano aspiring to be an individual, he has been impressed by the intelligentsiae preoccupation with Communism. Beyond Desire, the muddled result of his latest feelings, is neither fish, flesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beyond Control | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

...four bladed pinwheel surmounting the fuselage, deriving power not directly from the motor but from the forward motion of the plane, gave five times the lift of the conventional propeller. This device permitted almost vertical ascent or descent. It also increased immunity from the dangers of motor trouble over unlevel country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Performances | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

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