Word: homed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would again be set in motion., The consequences would be the cumulative narrowing of markets, the further growth of high-cost protected industries, the mushrooming of restrictive controls, and the shrinkage of trade into the primitive pattern of bilateral barter." Stated positively, only by. integration could Europe get a home market big enough to support efficient mass production...
...servants in its employ, who have sworn loyalty to its vague sovereignty, live far from home, work hard, and-amid the noble words and great issues raging about them-lead lives of quiet irritation. This week some of these forgotten men & women got a small place in the limelight. At Lake Success, U.N. opened an exhibition of 200 paintings by secretariat members. The pictures gave interesting insights into the preoccupations of people who, sometimes more than the windy statesmen...
Some of the amateur artists had worked into the canvases their feelings (mostly bitter, sometimes awed) about the great strange city which is their official home. There was the riot of Times Square at night, the dark sky aglow with the reflected fire of the neon signs (by Claude Bottiau, a young Breton who works in an office supply room at Lake Success); the naked sidewalks of 17th Street, and the inside of a bare room with an iron stove (by IndoChina's Tao-Kim Hai, an expert in U.N.'s trusteeship division...
...international civil servants were perturbed by the state of the world. Denmark's Ole Svend Hamann showed a surrealist living room with a man sitting beside a radio, reading a newspaper. From his pipe rises a mushroom-shaped atomic cloud. "What is a home?" reads the picture's caption. "An island of peace where the native language is that of affection. But what alien shapes are created by the invasion of newsprint and airwaves...
...beyond Suzanne's horizon, in Canada, The Bronx, West Virginia and Montmartre, bustling, hopeful, confident people were ordering their lives and dreams to fit the big plane's movements. In The Bronx, motherly Mrs. Raoul Silbernagel was busily planning a welcome-home party for her husband, who had been in Europe for three weeks on business. Cesia Lowenstein had only just returned to her Manhattan apartment after divorcing her husband, Ernest, in Reno, but she too was preparing a welcome. "Ernest was always away on business," she explained. "I couldn't follow him abroad because I wanted...