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Word: wonder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...valiant viewer of television for tots, but having read your article and noted horrified reactions of mothers, who eavesdrop on childish programs, I merely wonder if those anxious adults ever happened to read Grimm's Fairy Tales or Hans Christian Andersen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Progeny for President | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

Green Felt World. When tidings of the female wonder reached six-time Three-Cushion Champion Welker Cochran in the U.S., he skeptically queried his old opponent, Matsuyama. The reply was enough for Cochran: "Sometimes I beat her; sometimes she beats me." Cochran, director of the championship tournament, had to see this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lady with a Cue | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

...Campbell Soup Co., Bunker moved to the Wilson meat-packing company as an engineer in 1934, did a stint as head of the industrial engineering department, and became manufacturing vice president for the Kroger Co. Then Cincinnati's Trailmobile Co., makers of truck trailers, heard about the boy wonder and hired him as president in 1949. In a year and a half, Bunker streamlined Trailmobile's sales, services and production, doubled sales to $52 million and increased the net more than tenfold to $3,000,000. After Trailmobile was sold to Pullman, Inc., for $41.5 million, President Bunker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Shift at Martin | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...Troubles. At Martin, Wonder Boy Bunker will have to perform wonders. Last year, though the company had a backlog of $400 million, it lost an estimated $22 million. Part of Martin's troubles stern from its helter-skelter expansion after Korea. Its work force mushroomed from 7,500 to 23,000; the average length of employment among its workers dropped from twelve years to six months. Turnover jumped from 12% to 70%, and absenteeism soared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Shift at Martin | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...other hand, in a democracy as basic as is the United States, one may wonder what are the achievements of groups which try to establish at first that they are "the" ones who know how to be liberal or how to protect the rights of minorities, yet behave themselves just the other way around. For in the end, their mere attitude implies apparently that all the others "are not so good after all." This feeling, meant too often to hide a pathological inferiority complex, even more often leads to sheer arrogance which is unbearable and nullifies whatever "good-will" might...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PETITIONS & PRANKS | 3/7/1952 | See Source »

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