Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the built-in stabilizers of the U.S. economy have become stronger and more effective. Unemployment benefits have been widely extended, and payments have doubled since 1954 to $5 billion annually; the unemployed in some states now draw up to $60 a week. Gains have been made in old-age benefits, social security, retirement programs, and aid to the needy. Even more important, the U.S. economy has grown so huge and so diversified that a slump in one section, as in autos, can be largely counteracted by a rise in another, such as the $3.1 billion rise in farm income...
Winging from Augusta, Ga. to Washington aboard the Columbine one day last spring, President Eisenhower sprang a question on General Elwood Quesada, his special assistant for aviation. What, asked Ike, is the state of U.S. airlines as they prepare to enter the jet age? "Pete" Quesada's answer: Not so good. Though airlines are committed to spend $4 billion for new jet equipment by 1962, they have run into sliding earnings and difficulties in financing their purchases. Ike asked for a special report on the airlines' plight. Last week Quesada sent him a 44-page document prepared...
...sight of home brings back memories of Andy's teen-age girl friends. While Rooney looks on with the sappy smile that age cannot erase, Director Howard Koch runs flashbacks, taken from earlier Andy Hardy movies, of Andy's puckered-up romances with Betsy (Judy Garland), Sheila (Esther Williams) and Cynthia (Lana Turner). Old friends crowd around, and the younger generation looks at this legendary man with proper awe. Old Buddy Beezy comes to the corporate rescue by offering a choice hunk of land near the old swimming hole for the airplane factory...
Comedienne Kendall glides like an angular jellyfish through the role of Lady Broadbent, an elegant snob who sets out to make Husband Rex's teen-age American daughter (by his first marriage) the toast of the London "season." The toast, Sandra Dee, takes a lot of buttering up. After dancing with bumble-footed toffs at her first ball, she murmurs in a beguiling Bronx accent, "They're all drips...
...Orwell's baleful lens. He went down the wet, dripping, insecure coal mines on the heels of the naked miners-the comparatively fortunate who still had jobs. His picture of the unemployed miners and their wives scrambling for coal on the slag heaps is a shame to his age...