Word: commandism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...call himself "the best friend of the U.S. in Latin America." When war came, he swung his country to the Allied side. The U.S. established a string of air bases across Brazil's strategic Atlantic bulge, and Vargas sent a division to General Mark Clark's command on the Italian front. Benignly accepting the title of "father of the poor," the strongman also gave Brazil the 48-hour week, the minimum wage, and social security...
Washington's first "atom-bomb-proof" building is nearing completion just five miles north of the White House. Surprisingly, it is neither an Air Defense Command center nor a refuge for the President and his staff,* but a new laboratory for the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, designed to preserve the nation's vital file of military medical knowledge (e.g., 656,000 individual specimens, 6,000,000 pathological slides) and enable scientists to carry on their work despite atomic attack...
...Hector Berlioz, the ideal orchestra consisted of 242 strings, 30 grand pianos, 30 harps, legions of wind players and (according to 19th century wags) a few heavy mortars. He was never able to command such an aggregation, but several times he came close, notably in his most magnificent score, the Grande Messe des Morts (Requiem). That opus calls for a 210-member chorus, full symphony orchestra, four separate brass choirs (labeled according to the points of the compass), plus a battery of 16 kettledrums. Few of today's symphonies can afford to stage the work. At Tanglewood, Mass, last...
...Command Performance. In Sacramento, the Sutter Sales Co. lost four air-conditioning units to burglars who took literally the store's advertising slogan, "Come in and steal...
...Consolidated Vultee's huge Fort Worth plant last week, a quiet ceremony hailed the last of a long line of famed warbirds. Out rolled the final production model of Convair's ten-engined B-36 bomber, the postwar workhorse of the U.S. Strategic Air Command. In all, something like 400 had been made...