Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's gum-chewers, reported Gum-Man Philip K. Wrigley, chomped enough sticks (19 billion) last year to reach around the equator 34½ times...
...economic expert in China saw the program as a bold, brave effort to pull the nation out of its desperate economic slough. But the issue of new currency would have to be backed by honest and efficient execution of the rest of the government's promised fiscal reform, which would hit many of China's privileged where it hurt...
...skin is gone," said Chiang Kai-shek last week, quoting from an old proverb, "the hair will have nothing to grow on ... At a time like this, when rampant Communist rebels are confronting the nation with a serious crisis, the people, the government and the state will share the same consequences, be they good...
...Alley, Styne & Cahn believe that a tune either "romps," "walks," "bounces," or you put it away. Says Jule: "You can't fight it; either it comes easy or you don't play with it." Last week the latest Styne & Cahn hit, It's Magic, was the nation's No. 2 best seller in the jukeboxes, though it had taken a long time to romp, walk or bounce...
What had happened to the nation's glamorous program for peacetime uses of nuclear energy? In 1946, the Manhattan District had predicted that an experimental atomic power plant would be ready for testing in two years. But last week this plan was still far from realization. Grumbled Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, "It seems as though every reactor is always two years off." What had gone wrong...