Word: postwar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poland, whose newsmen in recent months have refused to serve up the party-line pap that passes for reporting in every other Communist society. Instead, Warsaw's dailies and literary weeklies bitterly attacked Russia and Poland's Communist Party for the miseries of everyday existence in postwar Poland, thus played a leading part in bringing the Gomulka government to power. During the Hungarian uprisings, Nowa Kultura (New Culture), a literary weekly published by the Writers' Union, and the Communist youth organ, Po Prostu (Speaking Frankly), ran staff-written stories that denounced Russian intervention, ranked with Western press...
...During 1956. he reported, "rising costs became an increasingly pervasive factor" in the economy (see BUSINESS). A major cause of inflation was a round of wage increases not based on any substantial increase in labor productivity. Output per worker, after rising an average of 3% a year during the postwar decade, registered "only a very small gain," he pointed out, while average hourly earnings in manufacturing and construction went...
Already the new Macmillan government has reduced the annual army re serve call-up by 120,000, disbanded R.A.F. and naval air reserve squadrons of "weekend flyers," and canceled orders for 100 new Hawker Hunter jet fighters (for the nation that pioneered the jet, postwar plane development has been a continuing disappointment: the Hunter is becoming obsolete just as its bugs are being eliminated, and one of Britain's top aircraft designers declared recently that the eight-jet Boeing B-52 is "five years ahead of any bomber we have...
...News at the height of the hoodlumism, "are the people of Clinton going to continue to sit idly by and see their officials kicked around merely because they believe in law and order?" Georgia's Eastman Times-Journal (circ. 2,530), which was credited with killing off a postwar revival of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia in 1950. has been one of the few papers in the South to urge Negro voters to go to the polls...
...same period, railroads were caught in the postwar squeeze between wages and prices, and pre-tax profits for Class I roads dropped 68% to $700 million. Since then, largely because of their race to modernize, the roads have stepped up earnings, last year wound up with a $1 billion profit. Says Southern Railway President Harry de Butts: "Fifteen years ago, when trucking grew up and undercut us, nothing was said. But now we are ready to fight back...