Word: postwar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost four years the mysterious drowning of a Roman carpenter's daughter has been postwar Italy's biggest political scandal. The discovery of the half-clad body of 21-year-old Wilma Montesi on a beach near Rome in April 1953 very nearly brought down the government of then Premier Mario Scelba. Because of it, the chief of Italy's national police, the chief of the Roman police force and Foreign Minister Attilio Piccioni resigned. When the Communist daily L'Unita solemnly declared that the Montesi case was a symbol of the moral bankruptcy...
...manipulating exchange rates, IAPI bought meat and grains from farmers at low prices, sold the commodities abroad for whatever the traffic would bear. In the famished postwar world, lAPI's profits were immense; it used the income to buy industrial machines and raw materials abroad for resale cheap to Peronista manufacturers. Industry-subsidized, tariff-protected and inefficient, but nonetheless industry-grew 63% between 1943 and 1956. Argentina began or expanded the production of chemicals, canned goods, paint, paper, machine tools, motorcycles, tires, tobacco, plastics, plywood, surgical instruments, steel furniture, motors, matches, cement, batteries, refrigerators, TV sets. At length industrial...
When the Fascists late in the war arrested Alcide de Gasperi (who was to become Italy's great postwar Premier), they found a small notebook full of names. Soon a band of Fascist toughs burst into the Florence home of Lawyer Adone Zoli, one of those named, to haul him off to jail. "Be careful, or I'll kick your teeth in," warned one of the Blackshirts. "Too late," answered Lawyer Zoli. "They are false...
...Recostruzione Industriale (assets: $3 billion), than he-ordered "an aggressive advance in every sector of the economy." Businessmen feared that I.R.I., which has holdings in 86 companies and dominates most of them, would socialize even more of the Italian economy. Last week, in announcing I.R.I.'s biggest postwar expansion, Fascetti tried to soothe those fears. I.R.I., he said, must never become a stepping-stone to nationalization, "which has proved to be a failure throughout history in country after country...
Lucky Jim's 35-year-old creator is foremost among a group of postwar writers, e.g., John Wain, John Osborne, Thomas Hinde, Peter Towry, John Braine, who have given British writing in the '50s a specific trend and a unique temper...