Word: g
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PHILIP G. TERRIE Charleston, West...
...late preconvention season of 1956, two Catholics-Massachusetts Senator John Kennedy and New York Mayor Robert Wagner-rank high among Democratic vice-presidential possibilities. One reason: a confidential survey now in the hands of selected Democratic leaders, e.-g., Harriman Adviser Carmine De Sapio and Stevenson Campaign Manager James Finnegan (both Catholics). The survey's fundamental thesis: Democratic presidential chances in November may well depend upon getting a Catholic on the national ticket...
...made a mockery of the cynics and alarmists alike. On campus after campus, whole new communities sprang up-row upon row of trailers, barracks, and Quonset huts, crammed with books, babies and as eager a crop of students as U.S. higher education had ever seen. By 1947 the ex-G.I.s comprised more than one-half of the University of Michigan's student body, nearly three-quarters of Columbia...
...campuses. Under the "Korean" G.I. Bill, veterans who served in the armed services between June 27, 1950 and Jan. 31, 1955 are entitled to G.I. educational privileges, and the Veterans Administration estimates that some 750,000 will be enrolled this fall in U.S. colleges and universities. The ex-G.I. of World War II has virtually disappeared, leaving only a few survivors finishing out their courses. But because of him, U.S. higher education will never be quite the same again...
...There's going to be hellzapoppin' in the steel industry all the rest of the year." So said Bethlehem Steel's Chairman Eugene G. Grace last week as the steel strike ended (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) and he took a good look at piled-up demand. Like other steelmen, Grace reported that his company had "never been so low in working inventories of semi-finished steel," while its orders for structural steel were "greater than we've ever seen before." The unleashed steel demand was piling atop an economy already operating "at a record rate, well above...