Word: nationalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council of Ministers announced that Camara Faraban, once a Minister of Education and one of Touré's close friends, had hopped a plane and fled the country. A Paris-trained lawyer who is married to a Frenchwoman, Faraban had no liking for the direction in which the nation was going; but the Council had a classic Marxist explanation for his flight. It was, said the government, tied in with the "whole network of spies and agents at the service of the colonialists, whose activity will be unmasked and severely punished without delay...
...flashbulb's white glare froze a busy scene against the black of a tropic night on the Gulf of Panama, in the Pacific. Dame Margot's husband Roberto ("Tito") Arias-scion of one of Panama's 20-odd leading families and recently (1955-58) his nation's Ambassador to the Court of St. James's-was happily at work transferring machine guns, pistols and other trappings of rebellion from an outboard-motor boat to a shrimp boat...
Other stars have leaped onto the bandwagon for more mundane reasons. Why does Rock Hudson, the nation's No. 1 box-office draw, plug safety razors? Says a friend: "Naturally, because he can use the dough." Fred MacMurray and Wife June Haver lent their faces to American Gas for a $6,000 kitchen, plus air conditioning for their ranch. Claims one bubbly member of Ad Row: "We can give very high-style publicity. Now we are selecting stars, not soliciting them...
...nation's steel companies continued their record-setting production pace, operating at 94.8% of capacity...
...Carloadings rose more than 18% over the same week last year, as the nation's railroads felt the sharp impact of increased business...