Word: bloom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economic bloom on Italy's face was not put there by Italians alone. Uncle Sam has paid most of the doctor's bills since war's end-nearly $5 billion worth...
EPISODE IN THE TRANSVAAL, by Harry Bloom (295 pp.; Doubleday; $3.95), is an authentic novel about South Africa, in which a self-righteous white superintendent snaps his bureaucratic whip once too often in a native "location." Johannesburg Lawyer-Novelist Harry Bloom, who jars the conscience by way of the solar plexus, all but makes audible the "roar of the lion" in 12,000 black throats...
...devoted 90 minutes to the bravura extravagance of Cyrano de Bergerdc. As the Pinocchio-beaked hero, José Ferrer gave the season's best starring performance, whether spitting an opponent on his sword or agonizing for love of Roxane, who, as played by Britain's enchanting Claire Bloom, seemed well worth it. Playwrights '56 struck a more sombre note with Ernest Hemingway's The Battler, whose familiar plot (a heavyweight champion is broken by success) was well-served by Paul Newman as the crazed, broken-faced pug, and Dewey Martin as a young runaway who finds...
...first third-quarter earnings came out from U.S. business last week, and put another rosy bloom on the boom...
British Inflation. In Britain, too the bloom was off the boom. British production is higher than it has ever been, but British wages are higher still. The result is a classic case of inflation: too many pounds are chasing too few goods. There was also chronic overemployment. There are 480,000 jobs going begging in British factories.. In such a situation, left-wing and Red-run unions have pressed reckless demands for more pay, threatening still further inflation...