Word: important
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ticked off some of the causes underlying Britain's worst postwar crisis: ¶With an arms budget of $13 billion spread over three years, Britain is putting more coal, steel and manpower into defense than any other European country. ¶ Imports of raw materials and food are costing Britain 40% more than they did before Korea; the prices of her exports are up only 25%. Uneven worldwide inflation means that Britain must exchange almost twice as many automobiles and tweeds as she did for the same amount of wheat and wool she bought a year ago. ¶ Britain...
...very polite. "Highly esteemed President," wrote East German Boss Wilhelm Pieck last week to spry old Theodor Heuss of West Germany, "I approach you at a time of great import ... I propose ... a meeting to discuss how the road can be smoothed for the convening of all-German consultations to bring about the peaceful reunification of Germany...
...introduce a studium generale-a sort of core curriculum which all students will have to take. He also wants to introduce the idea of a U.S. college, setting up a model house for 150 students who will live and study together. And he is planning on one other import from his adopted homeland. "This university has more than 6,000 students," says he, "and only eight are Americans. This must be changed at once...
...lost money in 1948 & '49 (reason: high-cost inventories and overproduction). She squeaked through only by wangling two RFC loans for a total of $1,600,000 (has paid off all but about $600,000). Tillie chose this poor time to launch another venture-a Texas company to import and can Mexican pineapples. Tex-Mex went bust, and Tillie says she lost $600,000 on the deal. But Flotill kept on growing...
...seems a little strange that the Centre game should have been named by the sportswriters as the "upset of the half-century" last year when this Yale game was considered at the time, of far greater import. But perhaps in the long run it is only right that the Centre game should stand out above all as the "darkest hour" for the Crimson as a national power. When Bo McMillan scored the game's only touchdown on a 32 yard dash, he ended more than a five-year streak which included a Rose Bowl victory. He had unwittingly written finis...