Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...edition. Many of them (and there were 2,792 pages of them in our four International editions last year) are directed towards supplying the needs of war-torn or economically undeveloped areas, and almost always they offer their wares by selling the con cept as hard as the product. They sell insecticides, antibiotics and pharmaceutical products, for instance, by selling American standards of health; they sell trucks, petroleum products, road-building equipment and automotive replacement parts by selling American standards of transportation; they sell agricultural equipment by selling American standards of food productivity; they sell office equipment and engineering services...
...French were plotting economic annexation of the Saar. Bonn's Minister of Justice Thomas Dehler scoffed at French fears. German aggression, he said, was a "fairy tale"; German responsibility for the first World War had been no greater than France's. "Hitler," he shouted, "was a product of the Versailles treaty and of France's own despondency." To emphasize the Saar issue, the Bonn government called off a trade parley with the Quai d'Orsay...
...Lexicographer Partridge "no word is a mere word." Words, says he, become the "mirror of society and the index of civilization." * Sometimes a word travels as far as history itself. Sherry was "the wine of Jerez," cambric the "linen made at Cambrai," and tobacco the product of the West Indian island of Tobago...
Died. George Orwell (real name: Eric Blair), 46, Bengal-born British novelist, critic, political satirist (Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four) ; of tuberculosis; in London. A product of Eton, Orwell became a non-Communist leftist, fought for the Republicans in Spain. He was an independent radical who disliked party labels and instinctively fought all forms of dictatorship. His Animal Farm was a truly aimed, destructive satire on Stalin's Russia. His last book, bestselling Nineteen Eighty-Four, gave a chillingly ugly blueprint of a future slave state...
Filmed mostly in Rome and Florence in 1938-40 by Swiss Producer Curt Oertel, the original version of The Titan was snapped up by German companies and palmed off as a product of Nazi Kultur. After the U.S. Army discovered the film in France, a copy found its way to Manhattan and caught the paternal eye of Robert J. Flaherty, whose classic Nanook of the North (1922) made him the granddaddy of documentary movies. Flaherty set out to get the picture's U.S. rights...