Word: postwar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apart. Wispy-white-maned Antonio Segni, who looks like a Shakespearean bit-player on short rations, seemed the last man in the world to repair it. To everyone's surprise, he promptly staged one of the most skillful displays of dosaggio (division of offices among rival factions) in postwar Italian history, not only revived the coalition but even managed to push through Parliament a series of overdue measures...
...style that had his admirers reaching far back into opera's Golden Age for comparisons. When he left the Metropolitan Opera at 55 in 1948 to appear with Mary Martin in South Pacific, Pinza slipped into the role of Broadway matinee idol with such ease that many postwar fans were scarcely aware that he had ever done anything else. After a stroke forced him to give up singing last summer, he launched enthusiastically into other plans, hoped for a straight dramatic career on Broadway. But that chance never came...
...first-quarter reports of 58 other companies, half of which had higher, or record, earnings. The same pessimism is shown by many other financial reporters. When University of Illinois Economist V. Lewis Bassie proclaimed during a recent Cleveland debate that "we're in the beginning of a postwar depression cycle," the emphasis, in stories was on his charge, not the rebuttal. Says Editor Tom Campbell of The Iron Age magazine: "Never has so much ink been spattered around about a 'downturn.' The general theme seems to be that if we are not headed for the roof...
...West Germany's most important postwar trade show swarmed 100,000 buyers from 74 countries. The most conspicuous visitors to the Hannover Industry Fair last week were 70 Russians, the biggest group of top Russian technical experts ever to visit West Germany, who hungrily eyed the finely tooled Ruhr machines and spread the Lorelei song for more East-West trade. Never before were the Red traders so active and abundant. Poland sent 200 engineers; Red China dispatched 30 stonefaced, baggy-trousered representatives to drum up business...
John Jay Hopkins, a handsome, debonair son of a Presbyterian minister, provided the push and brilliance that built General Dynamics Corp. (1956 sales: $1 billion) into one of the postwar era's biggest industrial combines. A lawyer, California-born John Hopkins joined Electric Boat, predecessor of General Dynamics, as a director in 1937, engineered the acquisition of Canadair Ltd., a Canadian aircraft manufacturing company, and then took over major corporations-manufacturing everything from telephone equipment to airplanes-until he had made the new complex the seventh largest defense contractor to the U.S. Government...