Word: postwar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slim (6 ft. 2 in., 165 Ibs.) "Pat" Partridge graduated from West Point in 1924, rose through World War II bomber service in Europe with Generals Jimmy Doolittle and Curtis LeMay and postwar duty in the Pentagon to command the Fifth Air Force under Weyland in Korea. There Partridge won the Silver Star for conspicuous gallantry in action in an unusual spot for an air commander. In a light observation hedgehopper, he conducted personal reconnaissance over U.N. forces advancing against Pyongyang and Chinnampo, completed his mission even though his plane was hit repeatedly by enemy ground machine-gun fire...
...postwar rate of growth of the U.S. economy has been "materially greater" than Government statistics show. So, last week, said Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. as he announced a revision of FRB's index of industrial production, the first since...
...question of motive became important. As the years passed, 15 books, including one by Allen Dulles (then in charge of U.S. espionage against Germany), were written to show that to an unsuspected extent, the plot was a sincere and patriotic attempt to save the honor of a nation. Postwar German courts absolved the plotters of treason, and each July 20, German newspapers have published eulogies of the conspirators. But the old argument about unquestioning loyalty in wartime lived on among diehard anti-July 20 officers, while the rest of the country preferred to forget the incident along with everything else...
Management's tough stand was no idle pose. Big Steel, led by U.S. Steel Corp.'s Board Chairman Roger M. Blough, was bent on halting steel's relentles's postwar trend: ever higher wages, ever higher prices-both up about 150% since 1945. With U.S.-made steel all but priced out of foreign markets and losing domestic markets to low-cost foreign steel (TIME. July 20), the steel industry finally decided to hold out against a wage boost unless the union conceded management more freedom to trim costs by cutting down on "featherbedding and loafing...
...Communists, always against hopeless odds, became the embodiment of democratic hope in Hungary; of internal complications resulting from nine years in a Russian prison; in Pecs, Hungary. A leader of Hungary's underground in World War II, stocky, peasant-reared Kovacs emerged as a dominant figure in the postwar period, led a coalition of peasants and the urban middle class (Smallholders Party) to a smashing victory over the Communists in the 1945 free elections. When the Red army moved into Hungary, it threw him into prison, tortured him for five months until he signed a confession of plotting against...