Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dropped 49 members of this year's junior class because they could not fly and didn't come under the limited quota of non-flyers. The Army unit has not yet curtailed its enrollment with such severity, but the threat has existed since the Korean war ended, and the scare flares perennially. Thus it would seem more reasonable for the Air Force and Army to instruct their first an dsecond-year students in the instruct their first and second-year students in the general, basic areas of their programs rather than in the technical aspects. If the student is forced...
What happened in the textile city of Namdinh (pop. 100,000), the third largest city in the north, was enough to scare even the most optimistic French businessman. As soon as the Reds arrived, everybody was ordered to turn in his nationalist piasters (value: 3? U.S.) for Ho Chi Minh piasters, got the arbitrary rate of 22 Ho Chi Minh piasters to one nationalist. Prices soared. After a short period of false prosperity, while merchants sold their stocks at wild prices, all business came to a standstill. Import taxes of 30% to 40% were levied on new goods, killing...
...BLACKBOARD JUNGLE, by Evan Hunter (309 pp.; Simon & Schusfer; $3.50). Everybody talks about juvenile delinquency, but Evan Hunter, who used to teach at a New York City vocational high school, has done something about it. He has written a nightmarish but authentic first novel about the problem that should scare the curls off mothers' heads and drive the most carpet-slippered father to vigilant attendance at the P.T.A. On his first day at North Manual Trades, earnest young English Instructor Richard Dadier stops a 17-year-old from raping a new instructor on the stairs. Within two weeks seven...
...French prefer to channel their rule through Laotian kings, and they have established their own purely administrative capital at Vientiane 130 miles from Luang Prabang. Since 1904 the French have ruled through one venerable monarch, King Sisavang Vong, now old (68) and gouty, but no easy man to scare. When the Communists threatened Luang Prabang November 1952, the King refused to quit, declaring: "This is my country. This is my palace. I am too old to tremble before danger." The King's elephant's were used to help the French erect barricades, and his 10,000-man army...
Through the wheat markets of the world last week ran a two-word scare: price war. To move more of its towering wheat stocks into export, the U.S. raised its subsidy to exporters, thus permitted them to cut export prices 10? a bushel (to about $1.75). Canada promptly followed suit, and Trade Minister. C. D. Howe warned that more price cuts would be made if necessary. Wheat trading slowed to a halt in England and other European markets. Argentina's Minister of Economic Affairs Alfredo Gomez Morales charged the U.S. with "dumping." Said Sir John Teasdale, chairman...