Word: postwar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Berlin? (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Chet Huntley as narrator of a film about the beleaguered city's postwar history...
...university had infected Hodges with an urge for public service. He took war leave to head the Office of Price Administration's textile division, spent two postwar hitches (1948, 1950-51) supervising U.S. aid in Germany. In 1952, urged by a business friend, he surprised Tarheel politicians by jumping in, almost unknown, to win the Lieutenant Governor's race. He held office only two years before the Supreme Court handed down its desegregation decision, and soon after, Incumbent Governor William B. Umstead died of a heart attack. Suddenly the tenant farmer's son stood amidst the biggest...
What has happened to the U.S. daily was a top subject at the A.N.P.A. convention. The general answer was easily come by: in the postwar period newspaper profits, caught in a narrowing gap between out-of-this-world costs and this-worldly revenue increases, have gone down by as much as 50%, thereby driving scores of papers out of competitive existence...
...rise in imports, while worrisome to some industries, is no threat to most industry (imports are still only 4% of all U.S. manufacturers' sales). But it is a timely warning of the far greater challenge that the U.S. faces abroad. In the early postwar years the U.S. dominated world trade by virtue of its new plants and techniques, and lack of competition. But no longer. Now, thanks to the Marshall Plan and other U.S. aid programs, plus the spending of private business, plants just as efficient as those in the U.S. are turning out goods around the world. Britain...
...have been connected with motion pictures." Says Paramount Pictures Chairman Adolph Zukor: "The future of motion pictures has never been brighter." Last week Hollywood could split the difference, find plenty of signs that the movie industry, for all its problems, is healthier than it has been in many a postwar year...