Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Julian Ulrych, 71, quiet, self-effacing, $20.44-a-week London hotel dishwasher, a powerful pre-World War II Polish politician and Cabinet Minister; who fought Russia during World War I, Germany during World War II, Communists after V-day, finally fled to England where he rejected a British pension, said: "One has to accept the bad things of life with the good"; in London...
...Truman, "I want to dump a load of coal on you." He asked Symington to serve as head of the Surplus Property Board (later Surplus Property Administration), charged with setting policies for disposing of some $30 billion worth of Government property left over from the war, ranging from shoe polish, bayonets and bombers, to oil pipelines and complete aluminum plants. Symington sold his Emerson stock at a capital gain of around $1,000,000, took on what he calls "the roughest job I ever...
...diehards of the Stalinist era, who believed in tough and tidy centralized control. Gomulka allowed more local authority for factory managers and town bosses, and peasants were permitted to abandon the collective farms to till their own plots-and did so with such fervor that only 12% of Polish agriculture is now collectivized. The mixture has been unstable since it began, and last week, as Poland suffered from another of its perennial economic setbacks, Gomulka sent for the old tough crowd...
...nonetheless the biggest in Soviet peacetime history. A single sheet of statistics was handed out to the delegates to study. To judge by it, Soviet citizens may live a bit better in 1960, but far from overtaking the U.S., they will still not have caught up to Polish or East German living standards...
...cars, Alexander gets about in a 1957 Chevrolet station wagon or a Corvette. While Morgan's hobby was spending millions for old masters. Alexander's chief delight is to get out in the country, climb onto a tractor to harrow or mow a field. He likes to polish his own shoes, buys his suits off the rack at Tripler...