Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Short of the Goal. Under Sir Alexander Bustamante, 80, a white-maned half-Irishman who organized the island's labor unions in the turbulent 1930s, the government has an ambitious, five-year plan for new schools, hospitals, roads and housing. Shrewd tax benefits have attracted foreign companies to Jamaica -Esso has opened an $18 million refinery, Sterling Drug and International Telephone & Telegraph are building plants. Tourism is thriving, will probably hit about 230,000 people this year. But last year's overall economic growth rate fell short of the plan's intended 5% annual gain, and there...
...pitchers had an earned-run average of 4.29 (v. 3.77 for the Yanks), and Star Reliever Barney Schultz staggered through the Series with an ERA of 18. But St. Louis won-and with the most exciting display of guts, guile and footwork since the old Gashouse Gang of the 1930s...
...belated debut at the Met singing the demanding role of the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier. Blondly radiant, and in sure control of her pure soprano, grown a shade harder over the years, Schwarzkopf proved that her Marschallin is still the most memorable since Lotte Lehmann's in the 1930s...
Berlin's Six Days dates back to 1909. By the early 1930s, the races were often rigged, and they attracted the booted whores and gaudy gangsters who gave Berlin its cynical, sinful aura. Left-wing Playwright Georg Kaiser described the Sportpalast scene in those days: "Inhibition has gone to hell. Cutaways shake. Shirts tear. Buttons pop in all directions. Differences flow away. Nakedness where there used to be disguise: passion. It's worth it-this brings profits...
...Jackson Pollock used synthetic Duco lacquers in the late '40s and early '50s. One of the first celebrated artists to rely wholly on synthetics was Holland's Hans van Meegeren, who used them to paint equally synthetic Vermeers in the 1930s. Since new oil paint can be distinguished from old in a simple laboratory test, the forger used a heat-setting resin to avoid detection...