Word: builded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went." Elected to the Bundestag as a Christian Democratic Deputy in 1949, Erhard took over the Economics Ministry in Konrad Adenauer's first Cabinet. He prodded, exhorted, bullied, preached productivity and sleepless enterprise as the ticket to German recovery. He offered generous tax concessions for enterprisers who would build new plants, other tax inducements to those who could sell their products abroad. He used his power to reduce tariffs and import quotas to beat down the raw-material prices for Germany's expanding factories, boldly encouraged the importation of such "incentive" goods as Dutch cheeses, French lingerie, Spanish...
Workers are switching from motorcycles (sales fell 67% below 1952) to cars (up 270% in five years). They are eating so well again that in new cinemas, carpenters had to build the seats a couple of inches wider. People are buying 75% more refrigerators than in 1953; washing-machine sales are twice the volume of 1955. Last summer in 86 campaign speeches Erhard proclaimed: "I don't have to make any promises. I have kept them all in advance. Just look around you and see for yourselves." Erhard received such an ovation in Socialist Nürnberg that...
...Canada's ownership changed. Prime Minister John Diefen-baker's Tories, throttled by closure in Parliament's furious pipeline debate last spring, last week moved to get the full story of the late Liberal regime's deal to lend $50 million to U.S. oilmen to build the 2,294-mile pipeline. As one of its first legislative acts, the Tory government created a royal commission on Canada's energy resources−with a mandate to delve into Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Ltd.'s ownership, financial structure, rates and export plans, relations with gas producers...
...peculiar combination of casual intensity and wit has caused one fan to call him "a cross between Billy Graham and Fred Allen." He cracks that he is "Lawrence Welk without music." Not far beneath his self-deprecating, unruffled exterior is a sensitive, often defensive man whose slight-looking build (6 ft., 174 Ibs.) shoulders a sizeable chip. Proclaiming his motto to be "Leave everybody to hell alone," Paar lives quietly with his second wife, a daughter, 8, and swimming pool in suburban Bronxville, N.Y. "I'm so lovable," Jack says. ". . . There have been all kinds of bets that...
IRAN, whose two-year-old development program looks ultimately to a wholly free economy. Abol Hassan Ebtehaj, director of Iran's Seven-Year Plan Organization, said that his country will spend $1.1 billion in oil revenues to build "basic 'facilities which will create the climate necessary to stimulate private enterprise. Our philosophy is to develop and operate industry only when private capital is unable or unwilling to do so." While emphasizing that foreign capital is essential to the.program, Ebtehaj said that the country's greatest present need is for consultants, industrial managers, technicians. "Our need...