Word: postwar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arthur did well in the famous class of 1916 that produced more than 40 admirals and made such a hit at Academy hops that his class Lucky Bag terms him "a pink-cheeked Apollo." After graduation and four years in battleships, Raddy got into the Navy's second postwar aviation class at Pensacola, Fla., won his wings in the fall of 1920, moved steadily upward to command the crack Fighter Squadron I aboard the new carrier Saratoga...
...Service radio-TV man.) The Hauges got off to a flying start with the whirlwind of inflation that swept the Japanese yen from 15 all the way to 360 to the dollar. At the same time the Hauges were reaping a paper harvest of yen, Japanese families, hit with postwar taxes, were living an "onionskin existence," peeling off long-treasured art works to stay afloat...
...general from Chicago to Singapore, hit everything from oats to onions. Hide prices fell to a postwar low, cast-aluminum scrap fell one-half under last spring to 14? a lb., rubber futures fell as much as 80 to 120 points as Singapore traders trimmed inventories...
President Pusey, speaking on "The Changing University" before the Law School Forum in Sanders Theatre, stressed the pressures born out of sharp postwar changes in the American economy, the problem of admitting the best possible students into the University, and finally the problem of obtaining competent teachers to maintain the desired quality of instruction...
...meet the demand, equipment-makers estimate, they will spend 26% more this year on new plants than they invested in 1956. Caterpillar Tractor Co. alone is budgeting $80 million for expansion this year to bring its postwar total to $500 million through 1960. Bucyrus-Erie Co. will boost production of excavating gear at South Milwaukee, Wis. and Evansville, Ind. General Motors will break ground this summer for an earth-moving-equipment plant southeast of Cleveland...