Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GERMAN SHIPBUILDERS, who have been hitting it hard ever since 1950, and now rank second only to the United Kingdom, are threatening to run away with the market. In the first quarter alone, West Germany built 62 ocean-going ships totaling 244,000 tons, now has another 281 ships grossing 793,608 tons under construction. Though 40 % of the tonnage is for foreign owners, Germany hopes to have 3,000,000 tons afloat by 1956, some three-quarters of its prewar tonnage...
...seismograph. It is never more in need of one than through the 81 years which began with the French Revolution (1789) and ended, with another revolution, in the unseating of Napoleon III (1870). In the course of those years, France was twice a republic, twice an empire, thrice a kingdom (Louis XVIII, Charles X, Louis Philippe). Napoleon III, creator of the Second Empire, spent 18 years trying to impose on France an order resembling that created by his notorious uncle...
...Imam of Yemen failed to inspire one of Edward Lear's famous limericks, it was only because Lear never heard of him. To this day little is known about this Moslem kingdom, the size of Nebraska, at the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula. That is the way Yemen's despotic ruler, the Imam Saif el Islam Ahmed, wants it. He bars foreigners and does everything he can to keep out of print. But last week there was print without stint: there had been a revolt against the Imam of Yemen. Tough Iraq-trained Colonel Ahmed Thalaya, mindful...
...Animal Kingdom. In Milwaukee, after carefully teaching two baby elephants to step on and off a small platform 18 inches high, Animal Trainer Robert Bierwirth blithely tried it himself, slipped, fractured his left ankle...
...Chinese Communist Party explained why: "Since 1949 Kao Kang engaged in conspiratorial activities aimed at seizing the power of leadership of party and state." It charged Kao with having formed "an anti-party faction . . . to undermine party solidarity and unity and make the northeast area the independent kingdom of Kao Kang." In the State Planning job he had "tried to instigate party members in the army to support his conspiracy." Expelled with Kao were seven other lesser party leaders, including rugged, mustachioed Jao Shu-shih, secretary of the Central Committee and onetime political commissar of the New Fourth Army...