Word: postwar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lineup. Now listed for Schäffer's place as Vice Chancellor was Ludwig Erhard, who would not only keep his post as Economics Minister, but also take over the, chairmanship of the Cabinet's Economic Committee. Erhard, as engineer of Germany's postwar prosperity, was clearly being rewarded for providing Adenauer with his best election issue. The coincidental fact that he is Protestant would also restore the Catholic-Protestant balance in the government. As the new Finance Minister, Adenauer named Franz Etzel, hitherto vice chairman of the European Coal and Steel Authority at Luxembourg...
...encourage winter construction ; fatter pension checks would soon go out to the aged and war veterans; and government cash advances on stored grain would help tide many a prairie farmer through a cold winter. Even so, economists privately gloomed that unemployment this winter would almost surely exceed the postwar high of 401,000, might reach 600,000, or 10% of the labor force...
...weakening ... Of course there are still some people around who can't face the facts of life, and so they turn anxiously to Gloomy Gusses like Karl Earth and Reinhold Niebuhr as an escape. But their brand of revived Fundamentalism obviously will not survive the present wave of postwar hysteria. In general, it seems to me that modern man is slowly but surely waking up to the realization that in order to move forward towards a scientific and democratic civilization he must rely on intelligent faith in himself...
...heavy-lidded look. At their widest, her eyes did not appear to open as wide as a Caucasian's; half-closed, her lids showed no crease or fold running across them, and her lashes always pointed down. Like other Japanese girls, she had been impressed by the postwar flood of U.S. movies and magazines. Instead of the traditional Japanese ideal of beauty-sloe-eyed, smooth-featured, flat-chested-many of them want to be more like their Western cousins with high noses, round eyes, curly lashes and prominent busts...
...President prepares for these conferences, he is still puzzled at the significance of Russia's dropping his postwar associate and acquaintance, Marshal Georgi Zhukov, as minister of defense...