Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with fury is, in fact, a New Europe-proof of the Continent's ability always to find in the ashes of its destruction the foundation for new triumph. After the moral and material devastation of World War II, perhaps the worst since the Black Death, Europe once again rose up with a new façade, new customs, a thriving culture, and a booming new prosperity that has made it the industrial rival of the two great powers. On the following twelve color pages, TIME presents a panorama of this extraordinary rebirth...
...that they have little chance to make their mark in the House, Heath leaped at the job, which he saw as a unique opportunity to master the subtle inner mechanisms of Parliament and party. Thanks to a natural and sometimes ruthless flair for handling men and anticipating trouble, he rose rapidly through the whips' ranks until, in 1955, he was elected chief whip...
...Rose Revealed. Cardinal Wolsey loved bright color. Under the layers of dirt, the restorers gradually revealed the brilliant Tudor blue ("byse") and gold work of the ceiling Wolsey ordered. It displayed the Tudor rose and the white plumes of the Prince of Wales, and it consists of 129 panels made up of a kind of papier-mâché. For the few panels that had been destroyed, the restorers finally came close to duplicating the material. One of its ingredients was goats' hair...
...cost. Fortnight ago. when purchases by bargain-hunting professional investors began to pull the market up slightly from its June 26 low, the short sellers started buying to cover their commitments at levels that would still give them a profit. That sent the market up further-but as prices rose, the bargain hunters began to cut back on their buying, with the result that trading on the New York Stock Exchange declined to a listless 3,110,000 shares on Friday...
Once again the Big Four were General Motors (1961 sales: $11.4 billion), Jersey Standard ($8.4 billion), Ford ($6.7 billion) and General Electric ($4.5 billion). Socony Mobil ($3.32 billion) rose from sixth to fifth, overtaking U.S. Steel ($3.3 billion). Only new face among the top ten was the nation's largest food processor, Chicago's Swift & Co. ($2.48 billion), which moved back up to tenth place after slipping to eleventh in 1960. Swift's return to the top ten was a result of the decline of Chrysler, which, with sales off 29% to $2.1 billion, skidded from seventh...