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Word: withe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Something Added. In accordance with U.S. policy of auctioning off instead of carting away unwanted supplies, the Air Force last summer sold 40 tons of surplus airplane lubricating oil to a Casablanca dealer. The dealer then sold the oil to 25 cooking-oil merchants of Meknes, Fez and Casablanca, who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOROCCO: The Malady of Meknes | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

This was the same old adulterant that, added by U.S. bootleggers to their "Jamaica Jake" (a drink made with tincture of ginger), caused something like 20,000 paralysis cases in Prohibition days in Ohio, Kansas and other Midwest and Southern states. About the only good thing to say for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOROCCO: The Malady of Meknes | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Though the new baby is not expected until late January or early February, the bassinet used by Prince Charles and Princess Anne has been redecorated in buttercup yellow and white frilled nylon-safe colors for either sex. A sunny nursery suite commanding the palace's inner courtyard sports a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pink or Blue? | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

But with hard work, and one of the largest outlays of U.S. money abroad-more than $1 billion between that day and this, not counting extensive military equipment-Chiang's Formosa did survive, and one recent evening, the Gimo, accompanied by Madame Chiang, drove down to the heart of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORMOSA: Ten Years Later | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

In standard of living, Formosans are second only to Japan in the Far East. Model land reforms have helped raise agricultural production to 50% above prewar levels; the rice crop measured 1,894,000 metric tons last year, 680,500 tons over the 1949 harvest; canned-pineapple production has sextupled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORMOSA: Ten Years Later | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

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