Word: postwar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skimmed over the most important decade of Louis Prima's career, namely, the '40s. While disk-jockeying in wartime London and postwar Munich, I was swamped with letters from G.I.s and civilians with jaded musical appetites who asked for repeat after repeat of ''garlicky-dialogued" Robin Hood, Angelina, and the big hit of all, I'll Walk Alone...
...postwar growth rates remain constant, Puerto Rico will catch Montana (whose growth rate is the slowest in the nation) in 1991, Mississippi in 1996. Statehooders, who are willing to pay the penalty of increased taxes in return for an end to what they call "second-class citizenship," find that too long to wait, talk of statehood within ten years or sooner. To them, Governor Muñoz Marin's political timetable is less significant than his reluctant admission that the tide for statehood is running strong...
...House of Commons. But Socialist Morrison would not have to leave Westminster after all. As Parliament dissolved, Queen Elizabeth's dissolution honors list awarded a lifetime peerage to the London bobby's son who became wartime Home Secretary, later Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary in the postwar Labor government. The new lord had no idea what new name he would choose. "I'll still be the same Herbie Morrison...
They based their forecast on the fact that each postwar cycle has had two or three years of expansion, followed by one or two years of contraction. The current boom got under way 17 months ago, and the key indicators are cycling ahead of schedule. Manufacturers' new orders snapped back to pre-slump peaks in 13 months v. 17 months in the 1953 slump, 16 months in the 1948 slowdown; personal income recovered peak levels in 14 months v. 16 months in the other two postwar recessions. Last week the Commerce Department announced that spending for new plant...
Because G.I.s so cordially hated Spam, few people figured that it would have much of a postwar market. But G.I. memories were short, and postwar teen-agers never knew that they were not supposed to savor Spam. Since 1945, Spam sales have climbed from 30 million cans a year to 48 million. Sales of its maker, George A. Hormel & Co. of Austin, Minn., are racing 12% ahead of last year's pace, will probably top $400 million in 1959. This week Spam passed its proudest milestone: Hormel & Co. produced its one billionth...