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Word: willises (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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For authors without such a business background-and even for some with -the problem is still a lack of real understanding of what goes on behind company doors. All too often their characters are stereotyped portraits grafted onto a business setting, characters closer to Freud than the factory. Even John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: -BUSINESSMEN IN FICTION--: New Novels Reflect New Understanding | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

As a 14-year-old student at a high school in Quitman, Ga., Farm Boy Wesley Patrick got a class project-the care of a gilt and a boar. He did so well that he won second prize at a local swine show. Much encouraged. Patrick asked his vocational agriculture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Develop & Expand | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

A Dozen Stars. Taylor's plan involved putting a full two years of college on TV. With School Superintendent Benjamin Willis, he decided to work through the city's four junior colleges, whose teachers would start out by giving four freshman courses over WTTW, which is owned by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: TV College | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

In Chicago, Commonwealth Edison's Chairman Willis Gale, head of the private group building the 180,000-kilowatt Dresden reactor 50 miles southwest of Chicago, told the Atomic Industrial Forum the plant would furnish power at a cost of about three-fourths of a cent per kilowatt-hour when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC ENERGY: Timetable | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

Broderick was one of many: in the nation's first 1956 general election* the reign in Maine fell plainly on the Democrats. Democratic Governor Edmund Sixtus Muskie, 42, running for a second term against Willis A. Trafton Jr., 37, speaker of the state house of representatives, had been conceded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTIONS: The Reign in Maine | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

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