Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...federal expenditures (including state-run federal-aid programs) climbed only 4%. Since fiscal 1946, when legislatures set to work on the backlogged needs for schools and roads, hundreds of little hikes in taxes and debts have let the 48 governments push up their total annual outlay 15 times as fast as the one big Government in Washington...
...extraordinary efforts to increase Russia's agricultural production and ease the shortage of consumer goods have been only partly successful, due mainly to Russia's generally weak farming resources. In industry, on the other hand, it was pointed out that the Soviet Union "has been growing twice as fast as the U.S. in recent years," and Bergson suggested that the day inevitably would come when Russia surpassed U.S. industrial output unless this country greatly steps up its effort...
Changing Markets. Brooklyn-born Charles Mortimer joined the old Postum Cereal Co. in 1928, rose fast as adman and merchandiser. He needs both specialties now because the sweeping change in the U.S. food market has put almost 70% of grocery sales into the supermarkets, where General Foods must compete against the supermarkets' own private brands. To do it, General Foods beats the advertising drum heavily. Says Mortimer: "You have to sell your product before people get to the supermarket...
...have reached some surprising conclusions about themselves. After a critical study of his company, President Hugh F. Colvin of Pasadena's Consolidated Electrodynamics knew just how to beef up his operation: he moved down to become an operating man again as senior vice president in charge of four fast-growing but troublesome divisions, while Board Chairman Philip S. Fogg took over the president's policymaking chair. Says Fogg: "This is what the recession does to your thinking. We are going to come out of this with talent applied in the right places...
...grips the two most talked-about literary movements of the late '50s. Britain's Angry Young Men fret about social mobility, the harsh grind of shifting class gears. The "go, go, go" men of the U.S. Beat Generation are caught in a frantic physical reverie of "a fast car, a coast to reach, and a woman at the end of the road." The question ultimately juts up: Are these self-appointed spokesmen for the 20th century young moving in a quest for meaning, or a flight from...