Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead of capital investment abroad, the Germans have been more interested in vigorous trading, preferring to sell on faster deliveries, better-designed products, and, in some cases, cheaper prices. The British setback had been obscured by the pleasant short-term fact of prosperity in Britain's trade and payments balance. Britain has done well in the lush dollar markets, less well elsewhere. Last year Britain earned the biggest surplus of foreign exchange in its history. But it was achieved mainly by holding down imports-at the cost of limiting production and consumption at home-rather than by energetic...
...Nasser in effigy in Baghdad's main street. When the body of Kamil Kazanchi, the Communist lawyer executed in Mosul, was brought to the capital for burial, a funeral procession six miles long wound like a slow river through the city center. Behind the coffin marched Iraqis who short months ago acclaimed the dictator of the Nile their idol, and now shouted: "Death to Nasser! Death to Nasser...
...Sicilian scheme of things, nothing is so important for a girl as her honor-unless perhaps it is the size of her dowry. In the case of Vincenzina d'Urso, a willowy girl of 21 with chestnut hair, the dowry fell short of the expectations of the bridegroom's family. Words were exchanged, doors slammed; Vincenzina's marriage to Enzo d'Agostino, a 21-year-old truck driver, was abruptly called...
...control monopolies and practices that restrict free trade. The powers are drastic, but so is the squeeze on Chile's economy. The 1959 budget of $465,600,000 is unbalanced by $242,500,000; industrial output has sagged 10% in the past three years; food production falls far short of keeping up with the annual population increase of 2½%; more than 150,000 workers are unemployed; and the cost of living, up 32½% in 1958, jumped another 3.2% in January and rose 4.6% more last month...
...polyglot world of U.S. music, Russian singers have always been in short supply. It is nearly a quarter-century since Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin sang his last Manhattan recital. Last week the first Soviet singer to appear in the U.S. since World War II arrived in Manhattan to launch a six-week cross-country tour. Her name: Zara Doloukhanova...