Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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However, Iron Age estimated that last week's price advances would add $350 million to the nation's steel bill, boost third-quarter steel earnings close to the first quarter's alltime high. So last week's steel rise would give the rest of the nation's heavy industries an occasion to boost prices even though many of them had not yet had any decline in their profits...
...world's airways, one fact was plain: the Air Age needed a lot of supercharging from state subsidies to maintain flying speed. Because of subsidies, free-enterprising American-flag lines, once way ahead, could now see a handful of foreign lines, state-supported in varying degrees, creeping up on their tails. On the choicest route-the North Atlantic-the American lines were still well in front. The Pacific Ocean was still an American lake. But over the land mass of Asia, the British, Dutch and French lines were pressing hard; Air France has just opened...
Died. The Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Cook, 86, who went to work as a pit boy in an English coal mine at the age of nine, later moved to Australia where he was one of the early members of the New South Wales Labor Party, then turned to the Right and rose from the Liberal Party to be Prime Minister of Australia (1913-14); of a heart ailment; in Sydney...
...symbolism (even the choice of tea cakes, the dropping of a cup, becomes symbolic), readers may extract many meanings or none. Guesses British Critic Cyril Connolly, editor of highbrow Horizon: "And what are these figures, but expressions of a deeper truth, of cycles of spring and winter, youth and age, death and rebirth, of the Mother who must become our enemy if we are to grow...
...rest of his fiction includes only a dozen short stories, written before World War I and long out of print in the U.S. They have now been collected in one volume for the first time. Old as they are, they bear none of the scars of age; their disembodied timelessness is a witness to Forster's skill...