Word: fact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...background fact of the steel strike is the U.S. economy's pressing need for a hold-down on production costs. Round-after round of wage boosts followed by price boosts has brought not only price upcreep at home but also loss of export markets abroad. Western Europe's rebuilt industrial plants, more modern on the average than the U.S.'s, confront U.S. industry with increasingly rugged competition. In late 1958, the U.S., for the first time since the igth century, became a net importer of steel instead of a net exporter...
Running Water. "Logic," Winston Churchill once quipped about the House, "is a poor guide compared with custom." And that, in fact, is just the trouble. By an act of 1536, Westminster "is reputed and called the King's Palace at Westminster forever." Its administrative head is the Lord Great Chamberlain, the Marquess of Cholmondeley, who declares that "my first duty is to the sovereign who appointed me," his second to the palace, and his third to doing what he can for M.P.s...
...discovery suggested a clue to one of the great puzzles of Egyptology: Where was the birthplace of Egyptian culture? Although many authorities believe it is the world's oldest, they have been perplexed by the fact that it did not develop gradually in the Nile Valley. About 3200 B.C. the First Dynasty appeared there suddenly and full grown, with an elaborate religion, laws, arts and crafts, and a system of writing. Until that time the Nile Valley was apparently inhabited by neolithic people on a low cultural level. Dr. Mori's mummy provides support for the theory that...
...volume, 9,000,000 words and 7,000 plates will have passed into print. The price: $32 a volume, $480 for the set. Said McGraw-Hill President Curtis Benjamin: "We were attracted the great and very evident resurgence of interest in the fine arts in America, and by the fact that more than 5,000,000 students are now studying art in one form or another in the U.S.A." It is a fair bet the figure will keep right on rising...
...Junk Pile makes dramatic use of a favorite Koerner device: psychological perspective. The Negro workman looms twice the size of the Plymouth in the foreground, simply because he is more important. In fact, Koern says, he represents a god of darkness and regeneration, just as the fat man sunning his face with the aid of a metal reflector is a disguised god of light and life. The Plymouth will eventually join the junk pile, and, remelted, may yet become a bridge. The setting is the North Side approach to Pittsburg's Manchester Bridge, leading to the Golden Triangle...