Word: ende
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Broken Bridges. After Munitions Minister Fritz Todt was killed in a plane crash in February 1942, Speer was selected to succeed him. As Minister, he found himself constantly battling colleagues. Almost at war's end, SS Leader Heinrich Himmler was using scarce materials to build a country house for his mistress. Speer's plea for women workers was vetoed by Hitler, at Martin Bormann's suggestion, on the grounds that it would keep them from producing good Aryan offspring. Half a million Ukrainian girls were brought into Germany instead, to become servants in the homes of Nazi...
...Episcopal Church). He became a lawyer and joined the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington. Religion did not re-enter his life until after his second marriage, when as a wartime Navy intelligence officer he started going to church again-the Episcopal Church. A deacon by war's end, Pike zipped through heady advanced courses at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, and was ordained...
...boycott is successful, it will be expanded each month-two days in November, three in December and so on. Separate antiwar demonstrations are planned for the streets of Chicago in October by the dominant wing of Students for a Democratic Society and by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Viet Nam. Both could easily stimulate sympathy moves on campus-especially if Mayor Richard Daley's police repeat their performance of August...
...report terms "unexploding economies." In the next decade, 18 Latin American cities will probably contain 1,000,000 or more inhabitants each, whether the nations are prepared for the flood of humanity or not. Bombay and Calcutta might swell to 20 million or even 30 million residents by the end of the century...
...allowed prices to sag last winter, has now reduced its wheat export prices three times within the past two months to counter cuts by Canada, Australia and France. The major wheat exporting nations are meeting this week in London, but despite their efforts, no agreement on a way to end the price cutting seems to be in sight...