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SHIPBUILDING PROGRAM to build 85 new ships, modernize another 189, will trigger a $756 million outlay by the U.S. Government and private industry, says Maritime Administrator Clarence G. Morse. Under the plan, the U.S. will spend $326 million, expects private industry to put in another $430 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Aug. 1, 1955 | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

...average VistaVision musical mostly because of the near-maniacal energy of Bob Hope, whose timing was never better as he splutters gags like an endless string of comic firecrackers. Italy's Milly Vitale is decorative as the long-suffering wife, and the children are always on hand to trigger a succession of mildly-daring jokes about childbirth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 11, 1955 | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

...explanation is that jabbing a hypodermic into the muscle means cutting or tearing a number of nerves which then offer the virus particles a direct pathway to the brain or spine. This seems plausible because inoculations against other diseases, e.g., diphtheria, may trigger a polio infection even when no polio virus is introduced and the only common factor is the use of the needle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Dangerous Short Cut | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

...simply a semi-honorable way of announcing "I'm scared to death, couldn't we possibly call this thing off?" English at last perceived, however, that Foster's honor would not be satisfied without being fired upon. Consequently, on the third exchange English levelled his bead and pulled the trigger. Foster fell dramatically to the ground, and English, thinking his opponent dead or wounded, left the field. Thereupon, Foster resurrected himself and proceeded back to Cambridge for the morning's classes...

Author: By George H. Watson jr., | Title: Harvard Honor | 5/11/1955 | See Source »

...West Germany a Foreign Office official treated himself to a figure of speech: "The trigger was pulled in Moscow, the bang was heard in Vienna, but the shot fell in Bonn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: Spreading Impact | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

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