Word: postwar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weapons with which the old French National Assembly battered the 24 postwar Cabinets of the preDe Gaulle Fourth Republic into helplessness and defeat, the favorite by far was the deadly instrument of interpellations (questions in debate). The technique was to pop a question at a minister, then toss in a series of motions, and demand a debate and a vote on every single one of them. As perfected in the 1952 debate that stymied the Tunisian reform program of Premier Pinay's government, this method of ministerial massacre has been known ever since as " Tunisification...
...proceeding "at a better-than-seasonal pace and on a broadening scale." But it pointed out that the upward surge of the boom is still ahead: despite a 2% rise in industrial output above pre-recession highs, the rise is so far not as great as after other postwar recessions...
...jets in the air with less trouble than they have had with many a prop plane. Says Sam Miller, Pan American's Atlantic Division chief pilot, who has made 82 crossings in the 707: "This plane has had fewer mechanical problems than any other new plane in the postwar era." The adjustments of the plane's shakedown period have inevitably led to delayed flights and late arrivals. But the grind on passengers' nerves has not been so much the fault of the 707 as of the airlines' frequent failure to explain the trouble to inconvenienced, irritated...
...from New York's Idlewild Airport, an American 707 on a training flight plowed through a flock of seagulls, drawing two or three into one engine. Compressors and guide veins got bent, but the plane continued its 4½-hour flight without any engine trouble. Unlike the postwar prop planes, the 707 has given the airlines no serious engine problems...
...Anaconda could not overcome its reputation. Suspicious Montana readers automatically looked for the "copper collar" riveted around every story. Ironically, the policy of playing down company news prevented Anaconda from playing up its notable contributions to the state in its earnest postwar campaign to win friends, e.g., the $400,000 employees' club given to Butte. Circulation grew slowly; last year Anaconda's papers netted a paltry...