Word: prewar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everybody in the R.A.F. had heard of Dick and David Atcherley, the flying twins. Dick was the stuntman:he clowned his way to fame in prewar days by chasing cottontail rabbits in a souped-up biplane, dragging one wingtip in the dust at 80 m.p.h. David was more conventional: he commanded a peacetime fighter squadron at the age of 34. In the Battle of Britain, the flying Atcherleys were among the famed few to whom so many owed so much. In 1950, both became Companions of the Order of the Bath...
Like many U.S. wives, Mamie Eisenhower manages the family finances, and, after years in the handling of a prewar officer's pay, still has a tendency to treat each dollar with great care. In Paris, she attends dress shows but rarely buys. "Do you see me paying $800 or $900 for a dress?" she cries. If she is complimented on a hat, she is likely to say that she saw it in an advertisement in the Sunday New York Times, and bought it by mail for $16.95. She is a doting grandmother, and writes weekly to her son, Infantry...
...economic situation he described as good could only be so measured by Spain's standards; but at least it was dramatic improvement, and there was a noticeable decline in anti-Franco sentiment inside Spain. Agile Francisco Franco, junior and lone-surviving member of Europe's prewar fascist dictators, seemed to be in better shape than at any time in his 13 years in office...
...made by Alcoa. The new Reynolds plant alone will make 160 million Ibs. a year. Moreover, when Reynolds completes its new $35 million reduction plant at Arkadelphia, Ark., the company's total aluminum capacity will be 829 million Ibs., 2½ times the whole nation's prewar production. Reynolds itself, little more than a maker of packaging foil before World War II, will then be the nation's No. 2 basic producer of aluminum. Not only Reynolds, but Alcoa and Kaiser, the other members of the big three, have been expanding as well. Because of the power...
...convince the nation that the U.S. Air Force had become the first line of defense. First there was some missionary work to do in his own backyard. If the other services were denying the Air Force its rightful responsibility, maybe it was because it too often seemed irresponsible. The prewar airman was bold and brave, and, for his time, precise, but he had managed to sell the public on the idea that he was a woman-chasing, whisky-drinking revolutionary who strapped his airplane to his backside and amused himself, on taxpayers' gasoline, from one end of the country...