Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...imported from the U.S. It was a far cry from the days just after World War II, when starving German families were trading heirlooms for food, and antique treasures drained out of Germany. Last year, for the first time since the war, the flow was reversed as Germans bought back many of the things they had lost and more besides...
Split Coming. Almost as suddenly as it arose, the San Francisco Renaissance split. Still and Rothko departed for the East Coast. Dean of those who remained was Boston-born David Park, and in 1951 he abruptly turned his back on abstract expressionism and won an award in the San Francisco Annual for a painting, Boys on Bicycles, in which the boys were boys, and the wheels were round. "As you grow older," Park said, "it dawns on you that you are yourself-that your job is not to force yourself into a style, but to do what you want...
...Summer Place (Warner), based on the 1958 bestseller by Sloan Wilson, tells a story about two families who spend a summer together on an island off the coast of Maine. The first family is Back Bay Boston, gone to shirtsleeves; the second family is Upstate New York, rolling in revenue. The second family pays room and board to the first family, which is too poor to refuse the money but too proud to enjoy taking...
...happens, Dr. Alfred Kokintz, the great physicist, is putting the final touches to the Q-bomb, a football-shaped object that will erase an area of 2,000,000 square miles if it ever explodes. The bowmen capture the bomb and the man who made it, take them back home. Fenwick, they announce...
...Buick plant. By the end of this week, General Motors production, now at a mere trickle, will be stopped completely. Chrysler has already laid off 5,000 workers in ten plants, by week's end will be forced to lay off many more. Ford cut back to three-and four-day weeks to conserve its dwindling steel supply into December. Suppliers suffered with the auto companies; Chevrolet has canceled orders affecting most of its 26,000 suppliers...