Word: populars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mark Gap. Despite popular uneasiness about rising prices, the fact is that most of Europe envies the German consumer's lot. Last year West Germany produced more automobiles than any country save the U.S., more steel than anyone save the U.S. and Russia. Exports are soaring; gold and foreign-exchange holdings have grown so large ($4.4 billion) that in order to keep the "Deutsche mark gap" from becoming as serious a problem as the dollar gap, the West German government is thinking of doling out foreign aid, just as the U.S. does...
...split between Tito and Stalin that year, General Markos had stubbornly continued to use both Yugoslav and Bulgarian bases, i.e., refused to take sides. Result: Greek Communist Boss Nicholas Zachariades charged him with "Trotskyite opportunistic behavior" and bounced him out of the party as a "fainthearted deserter from the popular democratic movement." Top Yugoslav sources guessed that Markos' illness was really a small round hole in the head...
...sits down at his creaky upright parlor piano, he is likely to let himself go in the foot-stomping rhythms of the South Side jukeboxes. Last week he held a little party at the vicarage to display an unusual wedding of his two talents: a Mass set to popular rhythms and already known in the U.S. as the "Jazz Mass...
...fuels. Paintlike slurries of powdered aluminum or magnesium, suspended in some combustible liquid, contain a lot of energy. In the case of rocket motors, which do not depend on atmospheric oxygen, both the fuel and the oxidizer material with which the fuel combines can be varied. Nitric acid is popular because it is a convenient form of oxygen and yields additional energy when it decomposes. Liquid fluorine is theoretically the best oxidizer, but it is fantastically corrosive and hard to handle. Some material may be discovered that yields fluorine conveniently in the way that nitric acid yields oxygen...
...engineers who met in Manhattan last week at the annual convention of the Institute of Radio Engineers, 800 expensive exhibits had been carefully set up. But the convention's most popular exhibition-before which engineers daily stood two or three deep-was a makeshift affair; it was a 15-ft. display of hundreds of white cards tacked on a wall beneath the sign "Job Opportunities...