Word: big
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sense a heartwarming welcome to an old, tried friend. In West Germany the turnout was for a onetime conqueror who had become a stout ally, boosted German pride and self-respect, assured U.S. support, guaranteed that Germany's new-found democratic freedom would sot be traded off in big-power parleys. In France this week new tumults awaited Dwight Eisenhower, not only as the liberator of 1944 but as a statesman willing to help France realize its aspirations for a return to national greatness...
Counting the big bites and the small nibbles of last year together, U.S. taxpayers paid $98.3 billion in federal, state and local taxes, the Commerce Department reported last week. That came to $568 for each man, woman and child in the country. Even so, outstanding federal, state and local government debts kept right on climbing, reached the dizzying total of $334 billion-$1,930 for each person...
Communist Curtain. Amana's ex-peasants practiced a non-Marxist communism, holding all property in common because possessions foster false pride. Bearded church elders dictated every man's job, had the women cook for all in big communal kitchens, punished any show of vanity, such as wearing "world clothes" rather than modest calico...
...first year, rose to levels ($268,000 in 1958) that provided plow-back capital and paid dividends. Mechanic George Foerstner, who designed the colony's beer coolers, began making refrigerators and home freezers, and bought radio-TV time to sell the wares. By 1950, when his business got big enough to need more capital, he got Iowa financiers to pay Amana $1,750,000 for the plant. The money helped boost Amana Society's original $50 stock to its present value: $3,600 a share...
Most of the travel agents get as much of a kick out of their work as the tourists do from their travels. Says President J. Stuart Rotchford of Chicago's big Happiness Tours: "With the same effort in another business, I could make twice the money. But I would not have half...