Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more abundant life. In India, for example, the market for bicycles is booming upward at 30% a year, while shoe sales are rising only 4%. Explained one village bicycle salesman: "The villagers are getting lazy. They don't want to walk any more; they want bicycles." While modern communications have whetted consumer appetites in Pakistan as in Peoria, the danger is that nations whose production continues to lag far behind their hopes of material progress will resort to political extremes that will plunge them deeper into want...
...with the wife six months pregnant. It next reveals that the young couple are four months married. Then the composer's homosexual collaborator appears, to lure the husband to Venice as a better place to work. Among other callers in the expensive, brick-walled penthouse are a very modern and very muddled obstetrician, a very airy and very ruthless lady decorator. Eventually there is a second homosexual, and ultimately a batch of shoddy theater folk...
...Oklahoma Wildcatter "Wild Bill" Skelly. formed his own company in 1920 (the Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Co. last year grossed $176,464,666), spread his empire into many fields, including pioneer production of lightweight (aluminum) luggage. Halliburton belittled the "good old days" as days of backbreaking labor, heralded instead modern "mechanization," once (in 1935) proclaimed he would hire no one who had ever accepted government relief...
...gets completely flustered if she has to answer the telephone. Through go-betweens, Sachiko, the No. 2 sister, sets up miai after miai−get-acquainted sessions with prospective suitors and their families. But Yukiko seems to be jinxed. In the meantime, Taeko, the youngest sister, who represents modern Japan's off-beat generation, scandalizes the family by running off with one man, then taking another lover, and finally getting pregnant by a bartender...
...associate professor since 1955, Kaysen is now making a pioneer study on the complexity of modern business firms. He has also studied monopoly and competition, and has advised the Department of Justice on anti-trust legislation. Kaysen served as an intelligence officer during the Second World...