Word: keyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...around many a key city in the eastern U.S. last week, cement-mixers, supplying the foundation of the nation's biggest construction boom, lay silent on their jobs. The sudden silence came after strikes were called by 17,000 United Cement, Lime and Gypsum Workers (total membership: 41,000) in 70 of the country's 160 cement plants. With kilns cooling and stockpiles quickly dwindling, contractors laid off about 20,000 construction men in New York, paralyzing work on $400 million in highways, schools, hospitals, airport facilities, piers. In Pennsylvania, expressway construction stopped on a six-mile stretch...
Everywhere he went he made speeches (scores-seven one day) that were fluent, effulgent, flabbergasting. Said he of the Malenkov opposition: "As they say among the people, a scabby sheep appeared among a good flock. They were thinking of seizing the key positions and of turning the current their own way. But you know, Comrades, how it ended. As one, we took them by their tails and threw them out." Murmured Premier Nikolai Bulganin, whose new, lesser role in association with Khrushchev was underlined by a new low in obsequiousness: "It is necessary to emphasize in particular that the First...
...Khrushchev does not know at the moment. But just in case Malenkov must be done away with, Khrushchev laid the groundwork a fortnight ago by a pointed reference to Malenkov's involvement in "the Leningrad Case." This curious purge, and its echoes for nearly a decade, play a key role in the current Kremlin power struggle...
...called because it flies in the face of all their classical theories about the sources of inflation. Traditionally, inflation is caused by excessive demand for goods in short supply. But many consumer prices today are rising in the face of softened demand and below-capacity production in such key industries as steel, autos, appliances. To describe this new phenomenon, economists have coined a new phrase: "cost-push" inflation. Some go on to contend that price boosts, such as the recent steel price rise, are caused primarily by the push of labor's wage demands. But is labor really...
TIDES OF CRISIS, by Adolf A. Berle Jr. (328 pp.; Reynal; $4), finds the mellowing (62) ex-brain truster of F.D.R. days conducting a mildly condescending seminar on the key events of the last quarter-century for the benefit of that global slowpoke, the U.S. public. Author Berle is most provocative when he looks at the mid-century world as a stage and finds it peopled with ghosts...