Word: ductions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...born there him self, but headed west to Kansas after graduating from Boston's Northeastern University. He became news editor of the Wichita Eagle, was a stringer cor respondent for TIME before going to full time in 1955 as Toronto bureau chief. In Toronto Gart got his intro duction to finance by covering the frenzied Toronto Stock Exchange and its volatile penny stocks. He also got his first market blooding (he lost $4.98). Back in his native Boston, Gart got a different view of finance in the tradition-laden world of M.I.T. He learned a lot about mutual funds...
With supply more in line with demand, Detroit automakers showed their confi dence by upping production to a rate of 440,000 units in July, the second month of the year (besides March) when auto pro duction gained over the previous month...
...labor, would be hurt by tariff reduction, the committee decided. Only three of the smallest of these would suffer serious damage. Some of the state's leather glove and belt manufacturers would be hard hit by foreign competition, and imports of cheap foreign china could cripple the pro duction of pottery, one of the principal industries of Red Wing...
...from a ship or an airplane, the islands of the West Indies look like the approaches to paradise. Ashore, the tourist quickly learns that many of the most intelligent natives spend a lot of time figuring out ways and means to escape from their Eden. The best fictional intro duction in years to their state of mind was Barbadian George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin (TiME, Nov. 9, 1953), a poetic memoir of island youth that plotted the colored man's course from careless innocence to gnawing discontent. In The Emigrants, a boatload...
...fleetingly, by the job they have undertaken. One thing they are sure of is that at first only very rich offshore oil fields can be exploited at a profit. Pools containing only 10 million barrels, though profitable on land, cannot support all the costly services demanded by offshore pro duction. When the big fields have been fully developed, the little fields can live off them, like small villages and farms between major shopping centers...