Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anarchy," with good and bad sprouting together in the search for newness and originality. But the best designers build on the basic requirement of all religious buildings: that they produce in worshipers a sense of closeness to one another and aspiration to God. The parabola has become an increasingly popular form, especially in Roman Catholic churches, which use it to symbolize the open arms of Christ drawing His people to Him, as in St Louis' Church of the Resurrection of our Lord and the Catholic Chapel of Brandeis University's Interfaith Center Ihe use of clear glass...
...Moscow authorities announced that 25,000 new copies of the Bible (both Old and New Testaments) were being printed by "popular request...
...take-home pay, a company must peg his salary at $30,000. In Burma laws require that every company have at least 51% Burmese capital and employ at least 75% Burmese nationals. In India and Indonesia, even in the friendly Philippines and cosmopolitan Hong Kong, political and popular pressures are making U.S. firms hire fewer and fewer Americans, more and more Asians...
COFFEE PRICES, which have bounced up and down for two years, will go up again. Frost damage to Brazilian crops plus uncertainty about dollar-cruzeiro exchange rates pushed New York wholesale prices up 3? a lb.; the jump will soon be passed on, thus pushing up prices on such popular brands as Maxwell House and Chase & Sanborn from an average 95? to as much...
...some politicos, who have always found bankers a popular target, the merger trend is cause for alarm. Cried Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee: "An alarming concentration of financial power in the hands of a few banks." Celler is busily pushing a bill to restrict mergers, and has lined up top Administration support behind it. Both Trustbuster Stanley N. Barnes, who has investigated some of the mergers, and Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin have come out in favor of the bill. While they feel that the mergers probably have not caused any lessening...