Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rise. Social connections were harder to make than money, but he worked at it and discovered friendships to be quick and warm among the political officials in the states where he had plants. "You operate in the state and you have problems," he told a TIME correspondent last week...
...Social Revolution. Son of a Marine major who won two Medals of Honor, the Daily Times's new managing editor was born in Virginia, educated at Fordham, and joined the New York Times in 1936. During World War II, he made nine Pacific landings (e.g., Tarawa, Saipan, Okinawa) as a Marine combat correspondent...
...shrinkage in the U.S. middle-income market. Plowing through Department of Commerce statistics that few businessmen consult, she showed that the proportion of middle-income families has risen from 37% in 1947 to 43% in 1957. "What does it all mean? It means that one of the greatest economic social revolutions of all time-the surging growth in America of a mass middle-income class-is still going on. It means that industry should be placing more, not less, stress on the middle-income market...
Divorced from Porter in 1941, Sylvia is now married to G. Sumner Collins, promotion manager of the New York Journal-American. At 44, she is a handsome woman with flashing brown eyes, makes the most of her charm and social position in covering her financial beat. At a dinner party last July, she heard businessmen moaning about cutbacks in reinvestment plans and the chances of an ensuing dip in the economy, sat down the next afternoon in her grab-bag office at the Post and pounded out one of the first stories predicting the onset of the recession. Other columns...
...Connor was definitely his mother's son, but, Mother being what she was, he may not have been his father's. That, at least, is his own account. Critical Britons attributed Mother's dark skin, social gaucheries and infantile giggle to the fact that her grandmother was Burmese. Father was "descended from the last High King of Ireland" and expressed his royalty in the form of detestation of "gainful occupation." As Father soon disappeared, Mother was forced to live by her wits-which she did in a London cellar with an "uncle," known as "Jacko" or "Poor...