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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...silhouetted one big fact that the U.S. was discovering on its own: in the 14-week wrangling of the U.S's longest nationwide steel shutdown two immovable forces-Big Steel and the big United Steelworkers-had subjected the nation to an indignity and peril that far exceeded the worth of the points at issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Indignity & Peril | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...line filler at the end of the CRIMSON'S acocunt of the Yale game is worth noting. At the end of a season when mighty Harvard had to struggle to score 101 points, the filler had this to say about the frightened little Praying Colonels: "Centre scored 246 points...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 10/22/1959 | See Source »

Though Roden paid off his tax debts within a year, he could not quit. For more than six years he averaged a raid a week, stealing in all some 400 cattle, worth $90,000. Even after giving Mischker his cut, Roden had enough left over to finance his roulette losses and to set up a beauty parlor for his girl friend, Widow Irmgard Wakulenko...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Mercedes on the Range | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...ORDERS worth $40 million were placed by Capital Airlines for seven Convair 880s and five Lockheed Electra turboprops, to begin service in mid-1960. To place orders, Capital arranged to stretch out payments of $37 million owed for its 57 Vickers Viscount turboprops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Oct. 19, 1959 | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

Underlying the SEC's new problems is the fantastic growth of the U.S. stock market. From a value of $34 billion when the SEC began, stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange are now worth nearly $350 billion. In the past seven years alone, the number of shareholders has doubled from 6,000,000 to 12,500,000. New corporate issues, which amounted to only about $400 million in the 1930s, now total more than $16 billion annually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: 25 Years Agrowing | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

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