Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's team of Cripps & Bevin, sick men from a sick nation, had looked glum as they left for the U.S. The advance party of British experts, already on the scene, was cautiously tiptoeing around any controversy that might re-ignite any U.S. tempers. For their part, the U.S. planners were taking no chances that they might be accused of telling Britain how to run its own affairs. The uproar of angry criticism in the U.S. and British press had all but died away...
Other Parisian hosts, however, had little time for such sentimental regrets. This year's tourists might be better behaved than the old, carefree variety, but during the 1949 season they had flocked to France almost 3,000,000 strong to swell the nation's economy with $195 million worth of foreign exchange and provide the biggest tourist year since 1927. Every Sunday for two months 25,000 gawkers had shuffled through the Palace at Versailles to gape at the Sun King's old splendors. The Eiffel Tower had not had so many visitors since 1889. Bus tours...
Korea's President Syngman Rhee hailed the catch. "It's an omen for the nation," he proclaimed. "The turtle is our symbol of longevity and prosperity...
Died. Hans Kindler, 56, Netherlands-born founder and longtime conductor of Washington, D.C.'s National Symphony Orchestra; after a stomach operation; in Watch Hill, R.I. Cellist Kindler founded the first orchestra in the Nation's capital during the depression (1931) after seven attempts by others had failed, entranced music lovers by conducting in sport jacket and shirtsleeves, finally resigned last December in a dispute with the orchestra's backers...
...Sings Again (Sidney Buchman; Columbia) is the predictable sequel to The Jolson Story, which three years ago became, to almost everybody's surprise, a smash boxoffice hit. The Jolson Story had wide repercussions in show business. It put the old Jolson songs of the '20s on the nation's jukeboxes. It gave Jolson himself, sixtyish and almost forgotten, new fame & fortune...