Word: nationalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he took over, Ruiz Cortines inherited a Mexico racked by corruption and given to grandiose projects that gobbled up as much as 40% of the annual budget. Now, the President was leaving a nation troubled by labor strife, including new riots this week that injured scores. But it was also a country that had taken some giant strides in the past six years, despite the fact that Mexico in 1958 felt the pinch of recession north of the Rio Grande. Mileposts...
Long before Canada's Prime Minister found a symbol of the nation's undeveloped wealth and might in the frozen north, mineral hunters and military men sought ways to pry open the Arctic kingdom's icebound riches. Last week from Ottawa came signs that the golden key has at last been found. It is nuclear power...
...five Catholic Interracial Centers called Friendship Houses that existed five years ago (in New York, Chicago, Washington, Portland, Ore. and Shreveport, La.), only two remain within the national organization-in Chicago and New York. Despite such signs of setback, the mood of the delegates was hopeful. "After all," said the Rt. Rev. Monsignor Hugh Dolan of St. Benedict's Church in Greensboro, N.C., whose parish is one of the few in the South with integrated parochial schools, "the Gospel principle of love is here to stay, and the segregationists can't do anything about it." The conference...
...were put through a three-week crash course in basic nucleonics. The U.S. is showing two real live nuclear reactors, and four real and working fusion devices, which flash like lightning when crew-cut young scientists throw the switches. The U.S. exhibit cost $4,500,000. No other nation has anything comparable. The only item in the Soviet exhibit to draw much popular interest is nonnuclear: a gleaming model of Sputnik...
From Washington, Wall Street and the nation's major industries came a surprisingly unanimous report last week: the pickup is moving much faster than expected. The recovery led to the coining of a new phrase to characterize the recession-the V recession-a sharp drop followed by sharp recovery (see chart...