Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obsession with increasing exports has had some preposterous results. Items: ¶EastGermany offered to build oil tanks for Sweden, even though its industries were totally unprepared to produce them. The tanks cracked, some collapsed, and the whole venture became such a fiasco that its director committed suicide. ¶East German experts offered to build water works in the Sudan. Pipes and drills were shipped out, but no water was found, and losses rose to at least 1,500,000 marks. ¶East Germany exported hundreds of tractors to Red China. When the tractors broke down by fleets, it was found...
...turned into slush, a hint of spring tinged the air. and romance was off again, on again. Collared in mink and hatted in velvet, Cinemactress Paulette Goddard, 42, beaming on an old beau she had met in the late '30s in Branford, Conn., took as her fourth husband German-born Novelist Erich Maria (All Quiet on the Western Front) Remarque, 59. In Las Vegas, onetime Queen-for-a-day Leona Gage, 18. who got bounced from the Miss U.S.A. throne last year for being a married woman, did her own bouncing: she divorced Air Force Sergeant Gene Ennis...
...Orson Welles rolled into one. He has 13 produced plays to his credit, two of which have reached Broadway (the first: The Love of Four Colonels), has acted in dozens of plays and movies, directed half a dozen more. A brilliant raconteur, ad-libber and dialectician, he speaks French, German. Italian and Spanish (plus devastatingly accurate American of several regions), gives funny, plausible imitations of languages he does not speak, e.g., Russian with a Japanese accent, can make noises like a talking dog. a bugle, a violin, flute, bassoon or harpsichord. He is halfway through the script of a novel...
Witty Sting. Wunderkind Ustinov was born in London, a descendant of a titled Russian who was exiled in 1868. (Peter's grandmother owned the largest caviar fishery in czarist Russia.) His father, a German citizen, was a journalist, spent 14 years as press attache at the German embassy in London. Peter drifted out of school in his teens and into London cabarets, where his mocking monologues kidded diplomats and aristocrats, prima donnas and generals. At an irreverent 18, he enchanted Londoners by mimicking-in ersatz Swahili-an addled bishop of the Church of England who had stayed too long...
...both production and exports were down from December, although much of the drop was seasonal. Unemployment is up slightly (to 1,432,000). The building industry, crimped by tight money, accounted for 70% of the jobless rise. Prices are easing in the textile, clothing and construction industries, but most German economists expect prices and wages to remain steady. ¶France, traditionally slow to react to economic fluctuations in the rest of the world, is still fighting inflation. While production is increasing at a rate of 9% annually, prices are still rising. Biggest concern: the government's battle to keep...