Word: comeback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War II and Korea transition go so smoothly? One key reason: the veterans found the way home paved with every comeback aid the nation could provide. The G.I. Bill of Rights and related laws offered what one vet calls a "bonus in advance," the most lavish assistance program in history (total Veterans Administration spending since 1946: $72 billion). Most important, the aid was given when and where it could help a man re-enter competitive society. U.S. Employment Service set up a nationwide job hunt. The VA guaranteed $50 billion worth of low-interest loans to help...
...eyes of most Europeans, the likely gains far outweigh the risks. Return to convertibility, said Per Jacobsson, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, "is an outward and visible sign of the comeback of Europe in world affairs." More important yet, it went a long way toward establishing the climate of economic freedom in which international trade and investment have historically flourished. And it was only by establishing such a climate that mid-20th-century Europe, shorn of its empires, could achieve long-term prosperity and political health...
...Pistol Technique. The twelve years of retirement that followed were in some ways the most educational in De Gaulle's life. After abandoning active efforts at a political comeback in 1953, he continued to drive into Paris from Colombey once a week to hold court in his Spartan Left Bank office on the Rue de Solferino. And because he remained for many Frenchmen a kind of father figure, men of every political current called to confide in him. Without ever soliciting information, De Gaulle became perhaps the best-informed man in France on the inner workings and gaping inadequacies...
Ford Motor Co. is making a strong comeback. Fourth-quarter profits will be so fat that they will wipe out a nine-month loss of $16.2 million, put the company well into the black...
BRITISH ECONOMIC comeback has put nation in best trade position in decade. November exports climbed so high that British trade gap dropped to $25.8 million, one of lowest since...