Word: prewar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people, several Russian journalists. There was no case when anyone I tried to see refused to see me. This is remarkable. Most of those I saw, including party members, were quite willing to talk about anything at all, including concentration camps, the secret police and other things which in prewar days were never even mentioned...
Since Whitney has the kind of money that may bring the Trib back to its thriving, prewar heyday, the sale cheered the paper's 1,900 staffers. They have watched gloomily as the Herald Tribune, once a formidable rival of the Times, cut coverage, settled into sixth place in circulation among Manhattan's seven major dailies. Under eager Brownie, who replaced brother Whitelaw as editor and chief executive officer in a 1955 family power squabble, the Trib seemed to ease up on solid reporting and sound writing as it went after circulation with frothy features and tabloid-style...
...supermarkets a multibillion-dollar business: mass appeal at mass prices. Unlike the old-fashioned clubs owned by members, a new class of club is starting up owned by businessmen, who frankly aim at big memberships as the road to survival. In Dallas, eight new clubs have opened since the prewar era, and most of them run one membership drive after another. Four more are being formed. In Denver, the Pinehurst Country Club will open next spring on 300 acres to cater to the new class of up-by-the-bootstraps lawyers, engineers, doctors and almost anyone else who wants...
...voyage was indeed cause for celebration. The newest, biggest (30,029 gross tons), fastest (21 knots) liner under the German flag, the Hanseatic represents a mighty step forward in a mighty comeback for West Germany's merchant marine. For the first time, total tonnage has climbed above prewar levels...
Friday Club. The new zaibatsu are of a different stripe than their prewar predecessors. Single families, or single firms no longer control the great combines. The zaibatsu depend for leadership on the financiers of their powerful banks, have set up central liaison councils with euphemistic names designed to attract as little attention as possible. Mitsubishi's "Friday Club," presided over by blunt, crop-haired Mitsubishi Trading President Katsujiro Takagaki, 66, is simply a bimonthly meeting, of 22 Mitsubishi company presidents, who continue the cementing process by arranging loans and raising funds for brother companies...