Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...missile of extremely long range. In a test firing last year, the Hurtling Hubert actually reached Soviet Russia, where its communication system kept running at top speed for eight consecutive hours. It is in constant television contact with the earth. Its fuel supply was developed largely in the mid-1930s, and some scientific circles feel a more modern source of thrust is needed...
...Mannix diagnosed it, Blue Cross is suffering from hardening of the arteries, has lost the pioneering spirit that sparked its phenomenal growth in the 1930s. It now has 80-odd plans operating across the U.S., works through an organizational maze of associations, commissions and committees. Some Blue Cross groups have restricted benefits while raising their rates; individually they are not up to dealing with employers and labor unions, which want nationwide coverage...
...drawing $1.6 billion in new cash during the last month, Treasury financing-despite Federal Reserve Board buying support-boosted the rate on 26-week Treasury bills to a record 4.15%. The yield on most long-term Government bonds was more than 4% for the first time since the 1930s, and some yields rose as high as 4.8%. Corporate bond yields also rose; unable to sell their public-utility offerings at the issued price, three Manhattan underwriting syndicates broke...
...export is the fast, shapely Mercedes-Benz, whose three-pointed-star symbol has long been associated with riches and beauty. To the world's auto connoisseurs, the Mercedes offers not only superb craftsmanship and loving attention to detail, but conservative styling that has not basically changed since the 1930s. But even the grand old lady of the auto world (Stuttgart's proud Daimler-Benz, Mercedes' maker, claims to be the world's oldest auto producer) occasionally indulges in a bit of sprucing up. Last week Daimler-Benz showed off its new Mercedes models...
Marcel Proust was all but ready to retreat to his cork-lined room himself. His father died of a stroke in 1930s, and his mother had less than two years to live. Proust had been dismissed by the critics as "one of those pretty little society boys who've managed to get themselves pregnant with literature." In the next 17 years, puffing at antiasthma cigarettes and doping himself with Trional and morphine, he would salvage 34 years of wasted time with a masterpiece...