Word: thawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wealthy banker father financed Pacific whaling fleets, invested in coal mines; his cousin was the New York Sun's famed editor-owner. Young Dana was three years out of Columbia law when he became an assistant prosecutor (under William Travers Jerome) in the sensational 1907 trial of Harry Thaw for the murder of Architect Stanford White. It led him into the state legislature as a three-term Republican. A strenuous-life aristocrat in the T.R. style, Lawyer Dana was an off-hours National Guard cavalryman, punched cattle in Mexico summers to stay in shape. At 36 he reorganized...
...chronically hopeful, the 1959 thaw in U.S.-Soviet relations, the Eisenhower-Khrushchev visits and the march toward the summit, carry the promise of an enchanted spring of peace. But a remarkable number of show-me skeptics, foreign and domestic, are worried that the thaw may put the U.S. on even thinner ice in a cold war that has yet to end. Last week three experienced diplomatic weathermen contributed to a growing debate on the subject. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter pledged the Eisenhower Administration to careful negotiation and something called "co-survival." President Truman's Secretary of State...
...warmed was the railroad industry. Freight-car loadings jumped 14% for the week to 638,408 cars, the largest traffic since the 697,633 cars loaded in the last week of June. Even the steel industry's biggest and hardest-hit customer, the auto industry, began to thaw. General Motors, which had shut down its plants, began to call workers back to resume making parts. Ford put its operation on five days, and scheduled overtime on the Falcon, Thunderbird and Lincoln. (But Chrysler laid off more workers, stopped production of its Valiant.) With American Motors and Studebaker-Packard also...
...while after the first Sputnik soared aloft two years ago, all Soviet scientists suddenly became ten feet tall, with brains to match. Since then, U.S. scientists have flocked to Russia and under the rules of the current thaw, have seen things that no Westerner had ever seen before. Interviewing the returnees produced a calm, post-panic assessment of just how good (and how backward) Russia's science is. See SCIENCE, Scouting the Russians...
...LAWRENCE SEAWAY traffic for year will total an estimated 6,600 ships carrying 20 million tons of cargo when it closes for the winter at end of November. This is 20% less than expected, because late spring thaw and steel strike cut shipments...