Word: return
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charles de Gaulle's first state visit abroad since his return to power, and, as a man conscious of the power of such gestures, he meant it to symbolize the reconciliation between France and Germany. Crusty, old (82) Konrad Adenauer, a fellow Roman Catholic who hits it off well with De Gaulle, beamed in delight at De Gaulle's assurances of French solidarity with West Germany in the Berlin crisis. But in London, the British government took nervous note of the politics, and the economics, of the meeting...
Basic Transportation. The success of the Rambler is not luck but the result of a ten-year-old program. After World War II, the late George Mason, then company president, concluded from market surveys that the U.S. was ready to return to "basic transportation" and a smaller, compact car. While other U.S. cars became costlier and heavier, Mason and his successor, Romney, introduced the first Rambler in 1950, drove it into the field, where the only competition was foreign. To cut costs, Romney consolidated field organization, factories and production, kept model changes at a minimum. He pushed Rambler...
Even so, no one expects textiles to bask in the light of a full boom. "In the last 40 years," says President James E. Robison of Indian Head Mills, "the textile industry has shown the ability to earn a decent return on investment only during periods of unusual demand caused by wartime shortages...
Many educators fear a return to denominationalism, Dawson explained, "but current interest in the Eastern religions demands a comparable knowledge of Christianity...
Marek Hlasko, whose bitter novel The Eighth Day of the Week was a product of the temporary Polish thaw, has chosen voluntary exile, and he will not be welcomed back should he return. Polish Communist intellectuals, who have been spared some austerities under the Gomulka regime, are dismayed at the implications of the Pasternak case. "For many of them," the New York Times said, "what counted most was the belief that the whole episode would wind up in a much tougher attitude toward intellectuals...