Word: postwar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rebirth of the Japanese textile industry is one of the success stories of the postwar years. With little U.S. help, the rebuilt and modernized industry produces 37% of Japan's vitally needed exports and employs 24% of its factory workers. But success has brought loud complaints from U.S. textilemen that Japanese exports, by concentrating on vulnerable U.S. markets, are threatening the whole U.S. industry. Last week, after months of negotiations, Japan agreed reluctantly to put a five-year ceiling on its exports to the U.S. The terms (subject to yearly review): Japan will ship no more than 235 million...
...average House enrollment of 325, as contrasted to the 418 average last year. This, along with overcrowding in freshman dormitories, has put residence at 149 percent of pre-war capacity. He added that 44 percent of the undergraduates still have to use the double-decker beds introduced to meet postwar conditions...
...first years it relied heavily on exposés. It broke postwar West Germany's first parliamentary scandal with charges that two Bundestag Deputies were corrupt; they were not reelected. Later, before the 1953 elections, Der Spiegel charged bribe-taking in the right-wing Bayernpartei; all 17 party Deputies lost their seats in Bonn. Last year it broke the story of Prince Bernhard's rift with Queen Juliana, of The Netherlands over Faith Healer Greet Hofmans (TIME, June 25). The magazine's most sensational exposé was a 1952 story charging that Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, whom...
...Florida's booming economy, one of the big postwar problems has been the area's almost complete dependence on oil for fuel and the danger of a shortage of tankers. Last week it looked as if Florida would soon get another important fuel supply-natural gas. In Washington the Federal Power Commission handed down permission for Texas Wheeler-Dealer Clint Murchison to hook his Coastal Transmission Corp. into Houston Texas Gas & Oil Corp., build a $150 million pipeline system to supply gas everywhere along the fast-growing peninsula...
Although most queuers loyally denied it, statistics clearly indicated that the ill-fated Suez adventure had powerfully affected the Britons' decision to leave. The British emigrant flow to Canada averaged close to 50,000 annually in the first difficult postwar years, but fell off to a mere 12,000 in 1950 as British living conditions improved. In 1955, despite vigorous Canadian promotion, only 35,467 made the move. Applications picked up noticeably after Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal in midsummer, and when the canal was blocked and new austerity measures were enforced at home, the long queues began...