Word: forms
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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President Vincent Auriol, who had to find a man who would attempt to form a new cabinet, was for the moment more interested in picking a winner for the Grand Prix, France's most fashionable horse race. On Sunday morning he interviewed a dozen political leaders, then hurried to the Longchamp race track with the plaintive explanation: "Ever since I took office I have been prevented from attending the race. This time I'm going to see my favorite Vieux Memoir run. I have bet some money on Vieux Manoir...
Both the mother and sister of Mrs. Ruth Tucker, 49, had died of the disease which sent her to Chicago's Little Company of Mary Hospital. There is no known cure for polycystic kidneys, an ailment in which cysts form and destroy the normal kidney tissue. After talking things over with her husband, Mrs. Tucker agreed to let Dr. Richard Lawler, 54 staff member at the hospital, try a transplant...
Norfolk Fiasco. Not till the war came did they try their hand at mass production. Near Norfolk, Va. they laid long, roadlike strips of concrete for foundations, then erected walls and roofs over them to form 1,600 squat houses that were little more than shacks. The development was a flop and about 230 of the units are now empty. More successful were 757 houses the Levitts built in Norfolk for the Navy. This success convinced them that low-priced houses could be profitably mass-produced. But the idea was temporarily shelved in 1943, when Bill Levitt joined the Seabees...
Like the blind men who tried to describe an elephant, few agreed on the meaning of Congress' bill to legalize a form of basing point pricing system for U.S. industry (TIME, June 12). The bill's author, Democratic Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, no friend of big business, insisted that it would permit U.S. industries to absorb freight charges (if done "without collusion") and thus help competition and the consumer. Other Administration supporters, notably Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas, denounced the bill as a scheme to stifle competition...
...drawings that illustrate these anecdotes and parodies come just as close to the mark as the architectural drawings which form the backbone of the book. The illustration of one of the innumerable civic ceremonies graced by Edward VII as Prince of Wales says just about all there is to be said about such aspects of British municipal life, and the family group at Fidget Priory on Christmas 1907 is the last word on the English country house party in its heyday...