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Word: makeing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...here are newsworthy people who champion that finest of all dogs, the Airedale" . . . Am I disgusted, or need I be? If after all these years I cannot tell an Airedale. Tell me, now, didn't your writer make a mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 9, 1950 | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

...Tight Little Island" is entirely a comedy of a situation. That situation will handled, is ridiculous enough to make an amusing movie...

Author: By Edward J. Sack, | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/6/1950 | See Source »

...Havilland's figures knocked the props from under London newspaper predictions of nonstop London-New York schedules of six hours. Until its range was improved, the Comet would not be able to make nonstop London-New York flights at all. De Havilland itself estimated that it would take twelve hours for the trip, counting refueling time at Prestwick and Gander. Lockheed's 43-passenger Constellation now makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Comet's Tale | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

...American Telephone & Telegraph Co., the world's wealthiest corporation ($10 billion in assets) wants to make all of its 600,000 workers stockholders. Last week, as A.T.& T. authorized a $200 million bond issue for sale to the public, it also offered 600,000 shares of common stock for sale only to employees, at $20 below the market price (145½ last week). A.T.& T. hopes to raise more than $60 million, plans to spend the money on new telephone installations. This is the third postwar stock offering to A.T.& T. employees ; there are already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECURITIES: The Right Number | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

...Indians' language, which was "infinitely richer and more expressive than English or Spanish." By the time his father had resigned the missionary post and moved his family about 40 miles down the channel to Harberton, where he started a sheep and cattle ranch, young Bridges was able to make out most of what the Yahgan Indians were talking about. But an even bigger challenge confronted him. In rugged, unexplored northeastern Tierra del Fuego lived the fierce Ona tribe. Naked under their calf-length, guanaco-skin capes, the nomadic Ona stood as high as six feet in their fur moccasins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ona-Land | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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