Word: postwar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From World War II until 1953, our country's long-range ballistic missile program was as dead as the proverbial dodo. Meanwhile, the Soviets were going full speed ahead. In those eight critical postwar years, our government spent only $3.5 million on these weapons. That, my friends, averages out to about $437,000 a year. In only two years of the same period the previous Administration spent $50 million for peanuts. That's 60 times more for peanuts than for long-range missiles...
Audience Participation. Munich-born Gottfried Neuburger. who majored in international affairs at Columbia University, is no newcomer to the fair business. President and founder of America Abroad Associates, whose directors have staged more than 50 big trade shows, he set up the first postwar International Auto Show and the first International Toy Fair in New York, was U.S. representative to the Zagreb. Yugoslavia fair in 1951. The Russians expect 3,000,000 people from all over Russia and the satellites to attend his month-long U.S. fair...
...island resorts have prospered more happily from the postwar tourist boom than the Bahamas, where last year 194,618 visitors-six times the 1949 total-enjoyed the other-century feel of picturesque streets, cheerful native servants, and dress-for-dinner luxury in a sun-washed tropical setting. Last week the pastel shops of Nassau's Bay Street were shuttered light at the height of the winter season, the colony's 16 major hotels were closed and empty. In a matter of days all but 24 of some 3,500 tourists fled home by cruise ship and plane...
...ROCK, by Francis King (248 pp.; Pantheon; $3.50), is based on the fact that the human comedy is seldom humane. British Novelist Francis King, 34, pitches his inhumane comedy on the rise and fall of a young Greek spiv of the postwar dead-beat generation. The book's larger theme is the old motif of American innocence v. European corruption. Reflected in the golden eye of a Mediterranean setting, what is sordid and depraved becomes corrosively hilarious. Spiro Polymerides is a sun-baked peasant Apollo. He is taken up by an arty, effeminate, high-minded official...
...chief engineer for Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, which grew into United's engine division in 1935, he developed the R-2800 Double Wasp, workhorse engine of World War II, and the R-4360 Wasp Major, most powerful aircraft piston engine ever made. Pratt & Whitney was a late starter with postwar jets, but Hobbs soon lapped the field with his J-57, the engine that earned him the prized Collier Trophy in 1953, made Pratt & Whitney No. 1 engine supplier for U.S. military aircraft...