Word: potatoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost insatiable markets. World War II, European reconstruction and the Korean war brought abnormal demand. But in a few commodities, the philosophy of expanding production at guaranteed high prices glutted even the hungry postwar markets -and with some disastrous results. The classic example was the great 1948-50 potato glut; millions of bushels, bought by the Government to support prices, had to be dyed blue and kept off the market. Net loss to the U.S. through the potato program: $478 million...
...Protestants, concentrated in the East, must bear the brunt of the Communist persecution. So far, much of the persecution has been indirect. It takes the form of noisy Sunday youth meetings, or local Red leaders scheduling "potato-bug Sundays," where farmers are ordered into the fields to pick bugs at exactly the time of church services. The Communists have also banned religious instruction in the schools, and snipped away at the pastors' stipends, still supplied under the law by German local governments. But their open hostility is increasing. Forty-six pastors, like the Marienkirche's Reinhold George, have...
...kept a small art-supply shop in Paris where the avant-garde foregathered. Van Gogh posed him with the head-on simplicity of a snapshot and surrounded him with the airy colors of Japanese prints. The background makes a sprightly contrast with the solid little sitter and the potato tones of his folded hands. Says British Art Expert Helmut Ruhemann: Van Gogh is one of the two or three artists of all time who has taken the trouble of inventing a new color scheme for every picture." In his portrait of Père Tanguy he has also happened...
...Potato Peeler. An automatic potato-peeler attachment for electric mixers was put on sale by Univex Products Co. of Somerville, Mass. Home-A-Peel, which can also be used to peel apples, onions and oranges, has an abrasive disk which rubs off thin peelings and pulverizes the waste. Price...
...Potato. After years of backing & filling, the Army at last has a policy that seems to satisfy both the generals' cries for manpower and psychiatrists' pleas for enlightened treatment of battlefront emotional cases. The policy began to emerge early in World War II. The Army swung away from the practice of treating every case of "combat fatigue" like a hot potato, sending the soldier back to rear-area hospitals, and often to a medical discharge which helped to make him a psychiatric case for life. The new idea was that most war neuroses do not originate in childhood...