Word: fells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says Walter Rybeck, associate director of the two-year urban problems study. The project's head: Paul Douglas, former Democratic Senator from Illinois. The 325,000-word report finds that the number of Americans below the poverty level ($3,000 annual income for an urban family of four) fell from 39 million to 26 million between 1958 and 1966. Even so, it notes, the gaps in U.S. society continued to grow. "The central cities increasingly are becoming white-collar employment centers," the report says, "while the suburbs are becoming the job-employment areas for new blue-collar workers...
...help finance their spending, consumers borrowed more and saved less in 1968. From the year's second quarter to the third quarter, personal savings fell from an abnormally high 7.5% of after-tax income to 6.3%. In the third quarter, installment loans rose at a record annual rate of nearly $9 billion. And for installment buyers, as well as for businessmen, the availability of credit is far more important than its interest cost...
...pretty and all too young. Like a "just-fledged owlet," as he put it, he began by pining helplessly for Adele Domecq, the dazzling but unobtainable daughter of his father's business partner (Father was a sherry merchant). Much later in life, when he was past 50, he fell tragically in love with a nine-year-old girl named Rose La Touche...
Effie won-apparently. When, encouraged by Millais, she finally fled to her parents and faced a public separation, she was able to prove that an annulment was justified. The scandal fell mainly on Ruskin, who had to pay damages for his marital neglect. But in falling chastely in love with Millais, was Effie not really falling into Ruskin's trap? Or was she merely a scheming baggage who outrageously embroidered her basic grievances for public consumption? The book leaves the matter in Piran-deloquent doubt...
...Bertha. The Krupps followed strictest rules of primogeniture, loading the whole of family wealth and power upon the eldest child. Siblings were absorbed into the firm, but only as drab underlings. After Fritz's death in 1902, the succession fell to his daughter, Bertha, and led to the long reign of a king-consort, Gustav von Bohlen und Hal-bach. Hand-picked by the Kaiser to marry the munitions business, he was also granted the right to use the Krupp name and to pass it along, though only for one generation and only to his eldest...