Word: jam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...signs are visible everywhere. British-not U.S.-cars choke Piccadilly, British weekers jam vacation resorts at Blackpool and Brighton. Simpson's in the Strand is serving its famed roast beef, and in poor neighborhoods, stores whose stock in trade was once chiefly Brussels sprouts and potatoes now feature oranges and even avocados. Across the North Sea. Scandinavians are thriving. Norway has rebuilt its merchant fleet to twice its prewar tonnage, added 100 hotels since 1945. Norwegian housewives, who bought only 2,000 washing machines in 1950, snapped up 64,000 last year. Even in chronically impoverished Ireland, real national...
...Polish housewife asked her husband as they stood fn Poznan gazing wistfully at a snug, gadget-filled house typical of middle-income U.S. suburbia. "Not in a thousand years!" came the answer from another gawper near by. "And even if they let you have it, the housing authorities would jam two other families in with...
...appeal to vigor and discipline falls on unhearing ears in a prosperous-looking France, where cars and motorscooters jam the streets and highways, and tables groan under good food and drink. Yet for all the look of health, the French treasury is empty. Last week the government borrowed another 80 billion francs from the Bank of France to meet the weekly payroll. The country's foreign-trade balance was unfavorable by 221 billion francs during the first four months of 1957. A billion dollars earned by French exports in better days has been dissipated during the past 18 months...
...Everything. Such Democratic governors as Connecticut's Abraham Ribicoff and Massachusetts' Foster Furcolo are having enough trouble defending their own budgets without having congressional Democrats throw economy curves. Says a Furcolo friend: "Poor Eisenhower. Poor Furcolo. They're both really in the same jam." Then he adds: "It will turn out to be suicide if they [the congressional Democrats] destroy the party's longstanding program and adopt shortsighted economy just because they want to squelch Eisenhower." Says an Illinois leader: "Our party ought to be in there fighting to save the defense and foreign-aid budgets...
...Scheiner came in at this point and allowed two runs on a hit and a sacrifice fly. With one out, third baseman Jim Shue made a fine catch on a pop-fly and tossed the ball to second to complete a double play and get Scheiner out of the jam...