Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under Turkish rule, Constantinople's famed Christian shrines, like the great basilica of Saint Sophia, were restored and refurbished to the glory of Allah. Slim minarets rose skyward alongside rounded Byzantine domes. New architectural jewels, like the Blue Mosque of Sultan Ahmed I, sprang up to rival the old, and the hiving humanity drawn by commerce to this natural crossroads of land and sea began to fill every available crevice with the insignificant architecture of its daily life...
Back in 1948, the year Czechoslovakia lost its freedom, some of Europe's intellectual Communists got cinders in their starry eyes, but Antonio Giolitti just blinked. To a friend troubled by Soviet tyranny he wrote: "Don't lose your spirit. Remember, liberty is not everything." Slim and younger looking than his 42 years, Antonio Giolitti bears one of Italy's biggest political names. His Liberal grandfather was five times Premier of pre-Mussolini Italy, and it is still remembered that "under Giolitti 100 lire in paper was worth 101 in gold." Young Antonio, brought up under Fascism...
...businessmen was the mounting cost of expansion. Floating a $60 million bond issue last week cost Pacific Gas & Electric Co. more than 5% for a security Wall Streeters said would have gone for 4.8% a fortnight ago. For those unwilling-or unable-to pay top interest, the market was slim indeed. Railroad credit ratings are so low, said Pennsylvania Railroad President James M. Symes, that the roads cannot finance new equipment unless the Government helps; he suggested that the Government create an agency to buy as much as $2.5 billion worth of rolling stock, then lease it to railroads...
...Major General David Hodge Baker, 49, will take over as president and chief executive officer of Capital Airlines, succeeding J. H. ("Slim") Carmichael, 50, who moves up to chairman of the board after ten years in the president's seat. Born in Paterson, N.J., Old Pilot Baker graduated from West Point ('30) and Harvard Business School ('41), was deputy commander of the Ninth Air Force Service Command in England during World War II, since 1953 has been in charge of all Air Force procurement and production. Capital's directors hope Baker's experience will help...
...publishing Slanted News, the Beacon Press has performed a notable service for thoughtful Americans. This slim but meaty volume constitutes the first valid survey of the question of bias in our country's newspapers. (Its author, now a copy editor on the Boston evening Traveler, was formerly sports editor of the Harvard Crimson, graduated from the College in 1943, and took a master's degree from the Harvard Business School...