Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field of supply, the question of factory dispersal is still an unsolved problem. Without the stimulus of war contracts, the military aircraft industry is falling apart. The nation's plane factories, which once employed 2,101,000, can now keep only 160,000 at work. The decline is continuing. One West Coast manufacturer, now employing 16,200, expects to be down within one year to 360, all that his commercial contracts justify. The 14 major manufacturers, who built 96,000 military planes in 1944, last year built only 1,330. This year they are down...
Franklin D. Roosevelt and big, bluff Jim Farley made one of the most effective U.S. political teams of all time. Farley did the spadework; F.D.R. sowed the political and sociological gardens. Then the team fell apart. Last week, 26 months after Roosevelt's death, Big Jim began to explain "Why I Broke with Roosevelt," in Collier's magazine...
...wonder that Joan's mind began to come apart. A prey to confused motives, she tried to "save" the girl from Heflin when she was really trying to save him for herself. She also gradually became convinced that she had murdered Massey's wife. Even more frightening hallucinations followed. After a fierce burst of melodrama, Joan winds up on the hospital cot. The cautious prognosis: she is a schizophrene, but conceivably curable...
Customers Lost. Two hundred savings bankers from the State of New York dutifully looked at pictures of four buildings in Manhattan's Yale Club. Two were banks, two undertaking parlors. They could not tell them apart. Advised Industrial Engineer Peter Schladermundt: banks should stop looking like mausoleums; it scares customers away. Banks should look like smart retail shops...
...jungle, swamp and grasslands. Its people are divided into three main tribes: the tough Moslem Hausas who live along the lower edge of the Sahara and despise the southern Nigerians; the town-dwelling Yorubas; and the farming Ibos. Mutual antagonism, sometimes exploited by the British, has kept the tribes apart. Since Zik's return, however, there has been a rapprochement. Zik, an Ibo, now wears a combination of Hausa and Yoruba style clothes to symbolize the new trend...