Word: g
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warm glow of an abundant summer there was little outcry from the American public against the U.S. creeping inflation. In fact, the few complainers were grumbling mostly about governmental action designed to stop the creep-e.g., the U.S. tight-money policies (see BUSINESS). In France and Japan, there were real outcries against import controls, in India against present wage ceilings in nationalized factories. When the chairman of Sweden's Riksbank (roughly equivalent to the U.S.'s Federal Reserve) increased the discount rate to 5% last month, Sweden's Socialist-Agrarian government, sensitive to popular pressures, kicked...
Before a jury of seven men and five women in Harrisburg, Pa., Special Deputy Attorney General Vincent G. Panati produced a classic capsule example of how much personal prosperity can be skimmed off state highway construction, the nation's booming, graft-prone major public-works project. Witnesses testified that two top members of the Republican-run Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission had teamed up with Manu-Mine Research & Development Co. (initial capitalization: $4,300) in a plan to defraud the commission of turnpike construction funds. With then-Turnpike Commission Chairman Thomas J. Evans' nephew, Charles Stickler, as president, Manu-Mine...
...Tennessee, the best known, most respected jurist is a short (5 ft. 5½ in.), balding judge named Robert Love Taylor. A lifelong Democrat in Republican East Tennessee. Little Bob Taylor comes from a long line of big men: his great-grandfather Nathaniel G. Taylor fought the British at New Orleans with Andrew Jackson; his Republican father Alfred was governor of Tennessee (1921-23); his namesake uncle, a Democrat, was a U.S. Senator (1907-12) as well as governor (1887-91; 1897-99)-in fact, the Taylor brothers ran against each other in 1886 for governor. No politician, Little...
...anyone could build an air force quickly, surely it would be the Germans. Even after "the few" of the R.A.F. rose to blast the myth of Nazi Luftwaffe invincibility in World War II, Hermann Göring's "tigers" continued to command respect as fighting airmen, and Hitler's scientists set a hot pace in plane and rocket development...
...somewhat confused, especially in the first act. There seem to be a good number of people standing around with their hands in their pockets, but as long as the singing remains of the same quality, the cast could stand on its head if it wished. For those who prefer G & S in the grand manner, the stage may be too simple and the acting underdeveloped. But for those who like pure G & S without ornamental trappings, the production is much superior for its unconcern with frills...