Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...join the Navy, got an Annapolis appointment from President Coolidge, graduated in 1930, learned to fly at Pensacola, Fla., became a test pilot. Deeply interested in atomic physics long before the birth of the atomic bomb, he did graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania in the late 1930s ("I wanted to relax at night in some uplifting endeavor which had absolutely nothing to do with the Navy"). After combat duty in World War II, he was assigned to work on atomic-bomb projects, pursued further studies in physics at Caltech, the University of New Mexico and Stanford. Well regarded...
...trio. In Los Angeles' Crescendo Club last week, the three performers triple-tongued their way through these lines (to Everyday) and half a dozen other numbers. What they were up to was a startling vocal and verbal imitation of instrumental jazz, particularly the big-band style of the 1930s. The whisky drinkers, like the trio's record fans, dug the act with the fervor of a bunch of auto buffs at an antique-car rally...
...license will not be renewed when it expires late this month, India moved toward granting a near monopoly on the supply of foreign news. Agence France Presse got shut out when its Indian outlet, the independent United Press of India (no kin to United Press International), founded in the 1930s by leaders of the Congress freedom movement, collapsed last fall. United Press International, seeking a contract to supply Ramanath Goenka's chain, has been pointedly discouraged by the government...
...where he was born "lucky," the seventh son of a seventh son. His father was an Italian immigrant mill hand with 13 kids. Perry began early as a barber, at 14 had his own shop, and never intended to leave Canonsburg. Even after crooning for Ted Weems during the 1930s, Perry went home in 1942 intending to open another shop. But booking agents never stopped phoning, and soon he was at Manhattan's Copacabana...
...Harvard's Slichter, White House Economic Adviser Raymond Saulnier, and the Federal Reserve's William McChesney Martin have different ideas on growth. They argue that force-feeding offers no assurance of healthy growth, and point to the fact that all the spending and big deficits of the 1930s did not lick the Depression. On the contrary, the U.S. had its two most prosperous years -1956 and 1957-when the budget ran a surplus...