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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enemy? Van Fleet hastily issued a second statement asserting that he had only outlined a tactical situation. His remarks, which may or may not have been suggested by Washington, would in fact fit in with various efforts on the international scene to obtain a truce (see above). But the plain military fact in Korea was that the Chinese Communists themselves, not the U.N. forces, had ended the "pursuit phase...
That was a plain hint of an economic freeze-out that would hit U.P. hardest. Even without La Prensa, the service still sells news to more than 30 newspapers and radio stations in Argentina...
...became the first U.S. woman golf professional in 1934, no one jumped on the bandwagon with her. One reason: there was no money in the women's game. As recently as 1948 only six women managed to earn a living from professional golf. But last week, at White Plains, N.Y., 13 of the 18 pro golfers belonging to the fledgling Ladies' P.G.A. were scrambling around the hilly Knollwood course in quest of prize money that will total $80,000 this year. The big wheel on the women's circuit and the one who has made women...
Others, ignoring the charts, thought the market had plenty of reason for queasiness; it was simply reflecting the uneasy state of U.S. business. The plain fact was that business was sagging, and the reasons were equally plain. Nobody put them more sharply than General Mills' Chairman Harry A. Bullis: "This slackening was caused by three factors every man and woman and high school boy or girl knows about-the recent heavy income-tax collections, the bite of credit restrictions and the unusually large accumulated inventories left when the big bad wolf of scare-buying sneaked back to his lair...
What Happened to Jose. Ferrer was in hot water from the moment he began his simple-country-boy tactics. How did it happen, the committee demanded, that so many Communist front outfits used his name? It was a case of "plain, stupid carelessness," replied Ferrer. Didn't Ferrer know that Ben Davis was an open Communist candidate when he sponsored him for election to New York's City Council? "I linked Davis with the Democratic Party," Ferrer said. "This is only an evidence of how careless...