Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eileen Dicks of Cookham, 30 miles west of London, rang up Betty Stevens in nearby Maidenhead. "I thought you'd like to know-we have a lovely case of German measles," she said. "Oh, how lovely!" said Mrs. Stevens. "Charles will be delighted. We'll be over next week to catch them." So Colleen Dicks, who had been threatened with cancellation of her ninth birthday party last week because she had German measles, had a party after all. As she blew out the nine candles Colleen presumably sent a virus-laden breath over Guest of Honor Antonia Stevens...
...party was the idea of Antonia's father, Dr. Charles Stevens, who firmly believes that the way to protect his daughters against the danger of having stillborn or malformed children as a result of German measles (rubella) infection early in pregnancy (TIME, Dec. 31) is to make sure they catch the disease long before they are married. So far the virus has not been grown well enough to prepare a vaccine, so the only way a girl can get a case -and lifelong immunity-is from direct exposure to another victim. If Antonia catches it, incubation will take...
...WEST GERMAN INFLATION will be eased by 25% tariff cut designed to spur import of low-cost foreign goods, trim West Germany's $4.95 billion gold and foreign-exchange reserves, which are mounting at rate of $1 billion a year. To tighten domestic money supply the Bank Deutscher Laender (the government's central bank) will also lend $100 million to World Bank at terms of from one to three years at 4¼% interest...
...Senate Military Affairs subcommittee hear Major General John H. Hilldring, the War Department's chief of U.S. military government and decartelization in Germany, pledge to break up the $2.8 billion Farben chemical trust. Farben had held an interest-often a controlling interest-in 379 German companies and 400 others. The Allies enthusiastically enforced this policy of dismemberment. They imprisoned 13 of Farben's top 23 executives as war criminals, stripped Farben of $1 billion worth of its assets and of its 30,000 patents. The Russians and Poles swallowed the three-fifths of Farben that lay in eastern...
That was the end of Farben as such. But it was the beginning of an amazing recovery by the free-enterprising successors to the cartel, which has resulted in bigger sales than their prewar parent ever had. In the postwar German boom, Farben's vigorous successor companies have won back far more of their immense prewar business and prestige than the most optimistic German had hoped for. Sales of the three biggest companies last year topped $1.09 billion, just over Farben's prewar total; and they are rising at the rate of 12% a year (but are still...