Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even a sound disarmament treaty and a U.S. retaliatory force able to deliver the second strike would offer no permanent security in an age of weapons revolution. The only safety lies in getting ahead and staying ahead of the Russians...
Rising last week to fight the measure, Conservative Leader Jarl Hjalmarson demanded on behalf of the largest opposition party that the government instead reduce spending, increase individual contributions to old-age pensions and health insurance. United for once, the Conservative, Center, Liberal and Communist opposition in Parliament tossed out the Socialist tax bills. Premier Erlander then made it a vote of confidence. This put the Communists, on whose seven votes Socialists rely for an overall majority in both houses, on the spot. If they brought the Socialist government down they would be handing power to the Conservatives. Reluctantly, the Communists...
Nabisco-Famosa. The fastest-growing kind of foreign investment in Latin America is the joint venture combining skills and capital from abroad with capital and a knowledge of markets from local citizens. In an age of nationalism, the joint venture helps to give Latin America the outside capital it needs while giving the outside capitalist the security he wants...
...scholarly George Marek got the music habit early. The son of a Viennese dentist, he haunted the Vienna Opera as a child, later became a regular standee at the Metropolitan Opera after his parents sent him to the U.S. at the age of 17 to make his fortune. For a time he worked in Manhattan in a millinery house, where he was assigned to the ostrich-feather department. Before long, Marek gave up feathers for advertising, became a vice president of the J. D. Tarcher Agency, spent his days writing copy (Coty, Smith Bros.) and his nights as the regular...
...seven independent schools, also segregated, are doing their best business in history with 3,500 students; two new lower-grade independent schools are off to such flying starts that each will soon blossom into secondary schools. As crisis approaches, Atlanta's non-public schools are entering a golden age. For public schools, the taste is slightly coppery...