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...from New London, Conn., on a cruise to New York, slips the symbol of them all: the nuclear submarine Nautilus, its atomic engines still generating untold power after a year-and upwards of 30,000 miles-without refueling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Admiral & the Atom | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...Carload on Wednesday. Even worse, says Illinois Bell, are the companies that use the no-toll long distance call to transact business. Some produce firms, collection agencies and manufacturers are among the offenders, costing the telephone company untold revenue every year. A fruit company in California may call its distributor in Chicago, and ask for "Mr. Brown." Translated, the words mean that it has a carload of seedless grapefruit at $2 a case. The answer, "Sorry, Mr. Brown is in Portland," means, "Fine, send a car load for Wednesday delivery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: The Free Phone Call | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

Somehow a weak Williams team had held the varsity to a one-goal lead at the end of the second period and even had led the Crimson for twelve minutes of the game. Williams goalie Dick Marr saved 34 shots in the two periods, and untold more had missed the cage, hit the posts, and even hit Crimson players in front of the cage...

Author: By Charles Steedman, | Title: Varsity Sextet Defeats Williams, 10-3 With Seven Tallies in Final Period | 2/15/1956 | See Source »

Kuiper has said in an interview, "The heavenly body we know as Pluto is in reality only one of Neptune's satellites that broke way untold millions of years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scientist Cuts Planet Population; Claims Pluto Is Only a Satellite | 2/9/1956 | See Source »

Chiang's "righteousness" would be amusing if the world weren't aware of the fact that he is responsible for the death of untold millions of Chinese peasants who refused to yield to his secret police and to the corruption of his government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 16, 1956 | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

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