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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bachelor's Theology? The National Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church, meeting in Milwaukee, also heard some strong words on the subject from Bishop Stephen F. Bayne Jr., of the diocese of Olympia, Wash., who will take up his new duties next month as executive officer of the worldwide Anglican Communion in London (TIME, May 4). Said he: Roman Catholic doctrine on birth control, i.e., that continence, either total or during fertile periods, is the only moral means of preventing conception, was "devised by bachelors on a faulty moral theology which glorifies the single state; it is not particularly...
...from being deterred by such formidable monthly fare, readers of Scientific American magazine dote on it, spend an average of four hours and twelve minutes reading each issue, and constantly demand more of the same. This month, without a bit of persuasion from the magazine-which has not invested a dime on circulation promotion this year-circulation climbed to a 114-year high of 250,000. Estimated 1959 gross-$5,000,000-represents a 50% increase over last year, a 4,243% improvement over...
...high economy bounced along on other fronts, with only a few bumps to slow its headlong pace: ¶ Employment in the U.S. in November reached 65,640,000, a record for the month, despite a decline of 1,191,000 in the number of jobs from October and a rise in unemployment to 3,670,000. Most of the unemployment rise was due to layoffs in industries depending on steel; the decline in jobs, bigger than the rise in unemployment, indicated that many workers retired from the labor force. ¶Automakers scheduled production at 90% of the output...
...Steelmakers plan to operate at about 95% of capacity this week, and output should top the industry's alltime record reached last April. Imports of steel also eased slightly in October, but stayed at a high level of 362,000 tons for the month. ¶ Freight carloadings rose 75,513 cars above the previous week, outpacing the same week in both...
...member who had died on the way. There he was greeted by the A.S.P.C.A., U.S. Bureau of Customs, and the Public Health Service. The Chinese crewmen were confined to ship, and they refused to unload the cattle from the boat, which by that time was two feet deep in month-old manure. Delfino, one of his partners, Clarence Peavy, and their employees pitched in and got the cattle off the boat. In all, Delfino lost about $30,000 on the first trip. "But it was well worth it," says he. "If I could go through all that trouble and still...