Word: high
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Forty-Ninth Star, sung by Anchorage Entertainer-Bartender Freddie Beardon on the new Igloo label (made in Anchorage). And it came close to capturing the confidence and cockiness of Alaskans (We have riches untold-there's oil, fish and gold), hustling toward the greatest summer ever. Some northern high lights...
...honors as breakfast with Governor Edmund G. Brown and an invitation to address the legislature. But wherever Kennedy wandered, stern-eyed Detective Brown watched lest Kennedy set up an organization to slip into his valise any of California's convention votes. Reason: "Pat" Brown himself has developed high ambitions about the 1960 convention, has announced as a favorite son and needs control of California's delegation to keep his leverage...
...warmth of spring, the Mercedes, BMWs and Opels streaming along the Autobahnen have to dodge ever more midget cars of workers, piled high with blanket rolls and suitcases, headed for weekend campsites along the Rhine. The West German Hausfrau roams through gleaming supermarkets to choose such exotic imports as avocado pears and Chinese litchi nuts, along with the regular order of Wurst. Her leather-jacketed, blue-jeaned offspring, the Americanized German youth, seeks his fun in ice cream shops or "Jazz Bar'' record stores, or atop his own noisy motorbike...
...year or two later. Germans went on a clothing spree. As the hunger for these basic things was satisfied, demand focused on household goods, then on motorcycles and cars, later on travel. Today 'Germans are back on a food buying spree, this time an Edel-fresswelle, or high-class-food wave. The best South American coffees (at $2.50 per Ib.) are now as much a commonplace as washing machines and refrigerators...
...vital "fringe benefits" provided by the federal government. Steered by the "social free market" philosophy of Economic Minister Ludwig Erhard, the government pumps 40% of its budget revenues into social uses. Every German worker and his family get government-subsidized medical care. State old-age pensions are now so high that trade unions are dropping their own pension plans...