Word: cheapens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grows up. Few writers have had much luck in trying to describe a lonely child of nature in a natural setting. Author Russ does better than most. But just as swamp drainage and encroaching civilization tarnish Jesse Geronimo Gundyhill's idyllic way of life, so do they cheapen the second half of Quivering Earth. Jesse and Keeta wind up in a boom town, and in final chapters as lurid and contrived as the first are lyrical and artless, Jesse finds his long-lost children and the woman who bore them, while Keeta gets herself just about the nicest...
...launched on unprecedented peacetime spending for armament, is in for a whole decade of inflation. Wages, warned Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson this week, can never go back to pre-Korea levels since the U.S. is "still an expanding economy." When costs and prices rise and dollars cheapen, savings can be protected only by converting them into ownership of "things"-including shares in the land, tools, bricks & mortar of U.S. industry. Moreover, arms spending, already at the rate of $2.5 billion a month, is really just getting under way, will rise to at least twice that before it tapers...