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1950s

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Name: 1950s

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

In with the bulldozers! Away with nostalgia!

Those complaining at the plans to alter the face of Lord’s are in thrall to a stupidly rose-tinted view of the postwar yearsBen MacintyreYou can already hear the harrumphing from the Long Room, the unmistakable sound of old men in hideous ties standing ... [Times Online - 11/19/2009]

Entities: 1950s, David Kynaston, United Kingdom

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

In The Land Of Long Dark Shadows - America in 1955

DOWNLOADS: 42 PLAYS: 36 (Communists were thought to be everywhere, ... [Crooks and Liars - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Shadowing, Hubert Humphrey, SubVersion, Red Scare Industries

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

5 Decades of Korean Girl Bands

The Kim Sisters were arguably the first girl group in the history of Korean popular music. They debuted in their teens in the early 1950s, and were extremely popular among U.S. soldiers stationed in Korea. They played many instruments and danced, and ... [Digital Chosun - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Girls' Generation, 1950s, Wonder Girls, United States, Additive

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Durban beaches get bomb all-clear

Kwazulu-Natal police have declared Durban beaches safe for visitors after an initial bomb scare. This assurance comes after the discovery of numerous bomb devices on the city’s beaches last week.The startling discovery of six such devices – in front of ... [Sowetan - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Durban, Bomb Disposal Unit, 1950s

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Who promoted Hasan?

Who promoted Peress? That was the question posed by Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the indefatigable red-hunter of the 1950s, regarding an obscure army dentist named Irving Peress who was promoted from captain to major despite having refused to answer questions ... [Washington Post - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Promoter, Army, Joseph McCarthy

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Pinnacle’s New Armor

Not really…but got you to look, right? My colleague Bryant Jordan ran across this photo and passed it along to Defense Tech just to show how very far we’ve come with ballistic protection. According to a caption from the archival section at Corbis, ... [Defense Tech - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Corbis, Interceptor, Ordnance

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)

Make Today Count

Since his days are determined, the number of his months is with You; You have appointed his limits, so that he cannot pass. - Job 14:5Back in the 1950s and 60s, there was a lot of talk about the future. There seemed to be a utopian dream here in America ... [Christian Post - 11/19/2009]

Entities: 1950s

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Congratulations, Michael Heath

Last night, Michael Heath, The Spectator’s brilliant cartoon editor, won a lifetime achievement award at the Cartoon Art Trust Awards – and what a lifetime. His first illustrations for The Spectator appeared in the mid-1950s, and have long since become ... [Spectator - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Michael Heath, 1950s, 1960s

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents

Public finances: Broke but not bust yet

With the biggest deficit ever for the month, the Red October headlines are easy to write. Interpreting yesterday's public finance figures is, however, more difficult. What really matters is the medium term, and – as the last two years of turbulence have ... [Comment is free | guardian.co.uk - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Treasury Bonds, benign, Famine

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents

High street tramp was called Perdy

I READ Tony Lords article in the Mercury on June 24 about the bombing of Blackheath Village.I found it very interesting - we learn something every day.I dont know if the lady you asked to get in touch with you did, but maybe this might be helpful, or ... [Mercury Today - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Air Attack, Mercury, 1950s

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents

Tiny film festival shows 'Whisky Galore' in a pizza parlour

A pizza restaurant is among the venues for this year's festivalPizzas venue for Cromarty Film FestivalA film festival that previously featured a screening on a tiny car ferry will hold one of this year's showings in a pizza restaurant.Cromarty Film Festival ... [BBC - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Compton MacKenzie, 1950s, Scotland

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents

Koreans' just cause supported in Britain

The British branch of the Spain-based Association for Friendship with the DPRK held a meeting in Manchester on October 31.Speeches were made at the meeting.Dermot Hudson, representative of the branch, talked about a wide range of activities conducted ... [Naenara - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Dermot Hudson, North Korea, United Kingdom

Quotes

National territory grew from 96,929 square kilometers in 1954 to 100,140 square kilometers last year. A statistical office source said, "Seas and rivers turned into land due to reclamation projects" adding, "Coastlines have gotten straighter than in the 1950s." South Gyeongsang Province, the largest province in Korea, occupies 19...

Report Compares Korea Today with That in 1950s [Donga.com - 8 hours ago]

...' Recounts Binani: "As soon as we commissioned the plant in Rajasthan, the economy went bust. We had invested Rs. 400 crore in the new project and the interest payments were high. Other businesses, zinc and glass fibre, were also not doing that great." But it was easier and cheaper to raise money in foreign currency and the Binanis decided to implement an early lesson from their international busin...

Indian Cement Goes Global [Forbes.com - 10 hours ago]

According to Ogezi, "The geology and geological history of the Benue Trough as well as preliminary results on eight known oil well drilling sites of the 1950s, 1960s and the 1999-2000 period indicate there are reasonable prospects for finding some oil and gas in parts of the Benue Trough."

Hope Rises for Oil Discovery in Benue Trough [AllAfrica.com - 17 hours ago]

"For a long time it was thought that the origin of the high blood pressure was a really big heart and that was based on a single measurement based in the 1950s" says Prof Mitchell

Giraffes own 'supercharged' heart [BBC - 18 hours ago]

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