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Word: wrights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city and surrounding St. Joseph County constituted a "critical" unemployment area. As sales and production grew steadily smaller, the layoffs mounted, until by March barely 4,700 workers had jobs at the plant. Along with recession slowdowns at other big companies-Bendix Products Division, U.S. Rubber, Curtiss-Wright-the cutbacks pushed total county unemployment to a record 15,900-more than 16% of the labor force. Lines started forming on Lafayette Street for handouts of surplus Government beans, rice and butter. At one point the city's Council of Community Services reported 3,788 hardship cases per month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: All's Right in South Bend | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...capture of a television comedian speeding in his sports car hardly seems a suitable exploit for an ambitious small-town marshal. But TV marshals who catch anything besides cattle rustlers are a refreshing rarity. Trap for a Stranger has also snared Dick Van Dyke and Teresa Wright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, Mar. 2, 1959 | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

Both Wadsworth and Sir Michael Wright, the British delegate, concentrated on Khruschchev's Kremlin speech...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kremlin Strongly Opposes West On Nuclear Disarmament Policy; Moscow Talks Near Completion The Associated Press | 2/26/1959 | See Source »

Capt. Joe Noble, Bob Foster, Carl Kludt and Ted Robbins posted decision victories for the Crimson. Foster, the only remaining unbeaten varsity wrestler, took his seventh straight, a 5-0 decision over John Wright. Noble, beaten only once, notched his seventh win, by 8-1 over Tag Geer, while Robbins, with a 6-0 victory over Gerry Norton, picked up his sixth straight, after two early losses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Defeats Wrestlers, 14-12, Although Foster Cops Seventh Win | 2/24/1959 | See Source »

...There is the closed box-an exhibition space sealed off from outside light and divided into cubicles where displays can be lighted with the calculated drama of a stage set. Chicago's Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 72, whom fellow architects rank with Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, accepts neither form. In Mies's view, a museum should be composed only of "three basic elements-a floor slab, columns and a roof plate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Big Room | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

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