Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speak English. The head of the delegation, tall, lean, youthful-looking Deputy Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua, 57, can switch when necessary to French or Japanese or Russian or German, the last of which he acquired (along with a Ph.D. in philosophy) at Tübingen University in the 1930s...
History's greatest brain drain occurred during the 1930s, when thousands of intellectuals fled Nazi Germany and took refuge in other countries. What Germany lost and other nations gained was re-emphasized last week when the latest Nobel prizes in science went to two refugees from Hitler: Dennis Gabor, who won the 1971 prize in physics for his invention of holography, and Gerhard Herzberg, who earned the laurels in chemistry for his pioneering work in molecular spectroscopy...
...Julian Academy, he was apprenticed to a Boston stainglass maker. Light in one of Mr. Feild's living room windows shines through a round stainglass of St. Francis, a gift of his employer. His sensitivity to light and color were further enhanced at the Disney studios in the late 1930s. Mr. Feild still contends animation is "the total aesthetic experience," the most "difficult art form" yet developed. Involving language, music, movement, controlled color, its potential was nearly unlimited. That in five years it developed in sophistication from "Mickey Mouse" to "Fantasia" suggested to Mr. Feild that, given 20 more years...
Pope Paul VI has drastically overhauled Vatican money management by putting it all under one roof for the first time. He has also gradually switched its control from laymen to clergymen. In the 1930s, the Vatican's lay wizards made major gains through speculation in foreign currencies, which is against canon law. Today's Pope wants future church investments to be not only legal but moral, whether or not they are profitable. He has even considered forming a Third World investment syndicate, regardless of the financial return. Meanwhile, for other reasons, Paul is damping a movement that would...
That would be a healthy rise for most industries, but it is hardly enough to make up for the worst depression in the tool trade since the 1930s. "It's always feast or famine in this business," says Carl L. Sadler, president of Cincinnati's Sundstrand Corp. Orders for machine tools plunged from a high of $1.7 billion two years ago to some $900 million last year, and they will dip to about $750 million in 1971. Because the industry makes the machines that make other machines, it is carefully watched as a sensitive indicator...