Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tangle Towns clues. Pages have been torn from atlases, and thousands of dollars worth of other books mutilated or stolen. Fights have broken out when as many as 25 people tried to grab the same volume of an encyclopedia; some eager contestants have removed source books from their proper places on the shelves, hidden them where no one else could find them. Copies of the WPA's guide to New York state have not only disappeared from the library and most of its 80 branches; its price in secondhand bookstores has soared to as much as $100 a copy...
...wealth of opportunities Americans have to be morally self-rightcous. Such an opportunity was taken by the Department of State this week when it made 27 per cent of the United States off limits to citizens of the Soviet Union. But the unfortunate thing about efforts at proper indignation is that they are often silly and ineffective. The new restrictions are no exception...
What should a man read in order to be well-read? To Sir William Haley, scholarly editor of the London Times, no master list or five-foot shelf can possibly give a proper answer. Even if a man should read three books a week for 60 years, he would still have "no more than a small holding on Parnassus." But last week, over the BBC, Sir William offered a few suggestions-a rambling series of pleasant prescriptions for booklovers...
Along with expanding trade, Trippe applauded recent Administration moves to encourage private U.S. investment in underdeveloped countries. One field of such development is aviation. "It is simple economics that a country cannot develop unless it has a proper transportation system . . . Today, however, many underdeveloped countries cannot wait for railroad and highway systems to be developed. Geographical or political conditions force them to skip these earlier stages and enter directly into the age of flight...
...Eleanor Roosevelt decided that a proper period of grace had expired, authorized a Hollywood agency to begin planning a movie about F.D.R. Next month Elliott and a screenwriter will start their research at Hyde Park...