Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...separate, relatively autarchic economies into one large, American-style free trading area. Only such a single market (with an estimated 270 million customers) could sustain efficient mass production in Western Europe; it would also force Western Europe's flabby protectionist capitalism into a new, competitive way of life...
Adenauer rejects Kurt Schumacher's talk of a welfare state and a controlled economy as remedies for Germany's economic ills. He believes that, under "free incentives, and with some foreign investment, German industriousness can produce enough to give all Germans work and a decent standard of life...
Kathleen Winsor, whose sensational pen has been quiet since it scratched out her sexy, best-selling Forever Amber in 1944, has switched from plumed-hat romantics to life in the modern world, her publishers said. The second Winsor novel...
...subject of old age: "I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." In the first issue of the Italian magazine Insieme (Together), which the publishers had promised would stress "the exaltation of family life," Co-Editor Countess Edda Ciano wrote unashamedly that she had been born out of wedlock to Benito Mus solini and Rachele Guidi, who was later his wife. "For many years, unaware of being a bastard, I was happy," she wrote...
...fact was that Joe's boys were unfit for normal school life. Despite tireless coaching at home, eight-year-old Larry had only a halting vocabulary of no words; 13-year-old Donald could barely dress himself. They were tragic "in-betweens," not quite eligible to enter even Denver's special schools for retarded children, yet not so hopeless that they had to be shut away in a state institution. Said stouthearted Joe, after his last turndown: "If there's no school 'that can help my kids, by golly I'll build one myself...