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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Therefore they proposed that three or four families buy a home and all its furnishings together, share possessions and wives, and bring up the children collectively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Californian Debaters Win on Wife Sharing | 1/31/1950 | See Source »

...Government's case took 49 days. At its conclusion, Tucker's attorneys sprang a surprise; they offered no defense witnesses. "After all," said one, "it is impossible to present a defense when there has been no offense." Instructing the jury, Judge Walter J. La Buy said that the primary question was whether Tucker and associates had intended to defraud stockholders or had acted in good faith. Even though they had failed to make cars, said the judge, "good faith is a 'complete defense." This week, after 17½ hours of deliberation, the jury acquitted Tucker and associates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: A Question of Faith | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

...maintain "effective competition," the President suggested that, wherever possible, synthetic plants should go to smaller rather than bigger companies. No single company, he said, should get to buy plant capacity to make more than 75,000 long tons of GR-S (a general purpose synthetic) a year until the Government has disposed of equipment with an annual capacity of at least 250,000 long tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bringing Up Baby | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

...undergraduate psychologist was skeptical. Said he, "You can get it into your subconscious that way, but buy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Classicist Finds Discs Serve As Pedagogic Benzedrine Pill | 1/26/1950 | See Source »

...continent, although they admit that if we are going to fight in Western Europe it will have to be on the Rhine, not the Pyrenees. A number of Southern senators have claimed that Franco is not such a bad man after all, especially since his country wants to buy their cotton. Certain elements of the American Catholic Church are also plugging for Franco--the Church in Spain is helping keep his Fascist government in business...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Friend Franco | 1/24/1950 | See Source »

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