Word: sixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Across the country, farmers were cautious but content. They had good equipment and money in the bank, the fat of six prosperous years. The total volume of crops was only 6% short of 1948-5 incredible production and 30% above the 1923-32 average. Rice and tree nuts set records. Cotton, wheat, oats, tobacco, apples, peaches and pears were above average. Nature had been kind; improved technology had increased yields by a whopping 50% an acre in the past 20 years. And men had worked hard for the bounty they would reap. As Mrs. Barbour pointed out: "People look...
...choice is not therefore between 'accepting American dictation' and the continuance of an independent British line. It is between taking the steps necessary to make the British economy solvent now, with America's active cooperation, or taking them in six months' time in the middle of economic disaster and with America perhaps contributing no more than a melancholy 'I told...
Salvatore Giuliano is probably the world's most eminent bandit, and certainly the most photogenic (see cut). In the rugged, wind-torn Montelepre zone that stretches behind Sicily's lush Palermo plain, Giuliano has carved out his realm. In six years, the police say, he and his band have killed more than 200 people, kidnaped scores of wealthy latifondisti (rich landowners) and made an estimated $2,000,000 in ransom. Time & again, the Italian government has sent entire companies of carabinieri to capture him. Each time the hills above Montelepre and the undernourished, goatskin-gaitered Montelepre peasants have...
...same kind of courage was shown six months later when Igor Gouzenko, a Russian cipher clerk, fled from the Soviet embassy in Ottawa with evidence of a Communist spy ring in Canada. Prime Minister King, who was trying to stay neutral in the cold war, dreaded the Russians' reaction to a spy scandal. St. Laurent, who had refused to listen to Gouzenko when he first came to his office with the spy data, saw it differently. He ordered 14 suspects locked up and held incommunicado while a secretly appointed Royal Commission dug up the facts. St. Laurent's political opponents...
Felix's librettist had taken a theme somewhat appropriate to the time. The beloved son has been away "fighting the good fight" for seven years (Felix had actually been on a six-month trip to England and Scotland); finally, after an imposter (the stranger) tries to pass himself off as the returned prodigal, the real son returns to his parents amid great rejoicing. But in the Lemonade Opera's church-basement opera house, even John (Man in the Moon) Gutman's fine translation and adaptation failed to give the action much charm or excitement...