Word: eras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether they dreamed of it or dreaded it, the statesmen of Western Europe had all come to accept the fact that a new era will dawn on New Year's Day 1959, when the long-planned European Common Market finally begins to forge France, West Germany, Italy and the Benelux nations into a single economic unit. Last week, in dramatic preparation for the new era, ten European nations carried out at one fell swoop the most far-reaching international currency reform since World...
Though husbands may moan over the decline of home cooking in the U.S., the era of the TV dinner has been rich fare for a softspoken, Georgia-born paper salesman named R. Carl ("Hap") Chandler, 41. Chandler heads Standard Packaging, which makes material for trays that can be cooked, bags that can be boiled. Says Chandler happily: "Everything that we make is thrown away...
...next ten years, domestic help will be almost nonexistent, and housewives wash an average of 150 dishes a day. Families are getting bigger, and more wives are working. The growth in convenience foods is going to be terrific. We're just at the beginning of the era." Chandler estimates that packaging in the food industry today is a $6 billion market; by 1965 he expects it to be $9.5 billion...
...airline flights 60% of normal, and the first of the holiday traffic on the move, thousands of travelers last week milled around terminals, reached destinations by circuitous routes and even by railroads and buses. The irony of it all: just when U.S. commercial aviation was entering a brand-new era, it was being assailed by the kind of featherbedding demands and jurisdictional disputes that smacked of hardening arteries...
...confess their errors, praise their vanquishers and-possibly-face the consequences. So far Khrushchev has decreed that Old Bolshies need not die, but just fade away. But the acrid gun smell of the past lurks around the Kremlin, and last week Nikita Khrushchev invoked another ritual of the Stalinist era: the public recantation, admitting to mistakes so that the boss may escape the rap for them...