Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thousands of men & women poured into New York's Grand Central Station last week to see the newest mechanical marvel of the world's most mechanical nation-the "wholly new" Twentieth Century Limited. The New York Central's publicity handouts had described the new Century as "the most modern and luxurious train in all railroading history." This turned out to be something of an overstatement...
Wounded Moose. Such evidences of ancient rancor could not dislodge the railroads from their secure place in U.S. affections. U.S. citizens are pridefully aware that their railway system is the world's greatest. Their tracks are the nation's sinews, their story part of the nation's legend...
...midst of crisis, the shrillest pitch of crisis in its history, the U.N. focused the world's attention. The measure of its weakness was that U.N. could not even protect its own mediator, Count Bernadotte, from terrorist murder. The measure of its strength was that every nation, including Russia, took U.N. seriously enough to maneuver vigorously to win its approval or, at least, to evade its disapproval...
...answers the Literary Supplement of the Times of London in a recent book review, "but then, no other nation has so much in itself to admire." Whereupon, using a collection of essays (The Character of England, Oxford; Clarendon Press) as a point of departure, the Times proceeds to write a forceful essay of its own on the British...
...nation's first housewife, Mitty González is confidante and adviser to most of Chile's other housewives. In her office at La Moneda (Chile's White House) she puts in a seven-hour day answering the hundreds of letters they write, asking her for everything from recipes to help in finding a new house. One correspondent recently begged for the President's old brown suit so that her husband could go on a religious pilgrimage...