Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That is the kind of absolutism that emerges from Attlee's relativism. Dulles can do business with Tito without giving an inch in his absolute opposition to what Tito stands for. He can even outline, as he did in his speech, six areas where he hopes to reach specific agreement with Russian and Chinese Communism (see below). No note of intolerance creeps into these proposals. In spirit, they are considerably milder than, say, the unbending British attitude toward Iran worked out by Attlee's government...
...looked at the sky. "The sunset is black over the sea," he quavered. "It is God's warning." Next day, Cyprus was shaken by its worst earthquake. A woman threw herself across her three-year-old daughter when the house crumbled, but she could not reach her son. "Why didn't God give me time to protect them both?" she wailed. In another village, a bride's veil hung above the ruins of a house where a young couple had been married the weekend before...
...last month suspended film production in Great Britain (so that its personnel abroad could bone up on Fox's new CinemaScope), admitted it would shut down Hollywood production for a month this fall. The New York Times estimated that Fox's total layoff of Hollywood personnel would reach 30 to 50% by October...
...marriageable age. However, the fewer couples of marriageable age have been counterbalanced by the fact that high incomes and steady employment are leading couples not only to marry younger but also to have more children. As a result, the population is still growing so fast that it will reach an estimated 175 to 180 million...
...scale will be vast increases in markets for children's and teenagers' consumer needs. In short, boom production for a 1953 population will be far too small for a 1960 population. Moreover, in the next ten to 20 years, as the babies of the Great Baby Boom reach marrying age, there is likely to be a new population explosion to make that of the '40s and '50s look small by comparison...