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...fleabag into the most popular home away from home. Until 1952, when he founded Holiday Inns, most motels were of the "no tell" variety, generally shabby and faintly disreputable places that catered mainly to casual lovers and transient salesmen. Wilson was among the first to foresee that the fast post-World War II rise in U.S. personal income would lead to a rapid expansion in both business and leisure travel. He also sensed that people on the move would prefer to stay in lodges that offered, in addition to a place to park their car, a standardized level of cleanliness...
...Marshall Program, established in 1953 by the British Government as an expression of gratitude for post-World War II economic assistance provided by the United States, enables 24 Americans college graduates annually to pursue advanced degrees...
...done in times of political or economic crises since the days of the Pharaohs, the price of gold ran up last week. On one day of frenzied trading in London, it jumped a record $1.90 per oz. Later it vaulted to a post-World War II high of $54-a full $16 above the price at which central banks value the metal as a monetary reserve. But this flurry was only partly caused by fears that a wider war over Viet Nam might further undermine the shaky world financial system. More than that, the buying excitement, which had been building...
...connection has ever been established between the Yablonski murders and Boyle or the U.M.W., but the resulting publicity helped contribute to Boyle's downfall. From a post-World War I membership of more than 600,000, the U.M.W has dropped to 180,000 members; critics have charged that the union has lagged on safety legislation and failed to push vigorously for black-lung benefits for disabled miners. Autocratic, out of touch, Boyle was left with little defense to offer those critics -or his federal prosecutors...
...seems to be a cyclical phenomenon. Its classic period came between 1902 and 1912, when Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair exposed civic corruption and business chicanery. It diminished in the 1920s, revived briefly during the Depression, and then went into eclipse again during the long period of post-World War II prosperity and contentment. In recent years, however, confidence and complacency have been shaken by the Viet Nam War, explosive social and racial tensions and the youth revolt. All these have bred a deep unease and an anti-Establishment mood in which the nation's institutions...