Word: transform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modern" interpretation of Socialist dogma to cope with the fact that Socialist theory is out of date and Karl Marx a political handicap. In a recent book called Twentieth Century Socialism, the "household troops" made some startling admissions. Nationalization of industry, the magic tool that was to transform society, had, they conceded, lost its magic: "There is no longer the confidence that a change in ownership is enough to insure that an industry is run on Socialist lines." Workers in nationalized mines find no greater joy or increased incentive in the knowledge that the mines are theoretically "theirs." Even...
...Fast. In one respect Menderes' boldness betrayed him. After coming to power he embarked upon an economic program designed to transform Turkey overnight into a modern industrial nation. All over the country power plants, steel mills, textile mills, cement-making factories began springing up, and work was begun on new roads, new irrigation projects and big harbors. To do this Turkey went head over heels into debt, mostly on short-term credits at unfavorable terms. Worse, many of the new projects proved to have been ill-planned, e.g., sugar factories where there were no sugar beets...
...Drink. At party after party, lean young lordlings were kicking up their heels with the debutante daughters of wealthy tradesmen. It was all high spirits and higher expense accounts. For the showiest party of all, an army of some 60 technicians was called in to transform the ballroom at Claridge's into a moonlit garden so that young Countess "Bunny" Esterhazy and "Flockie" Harcourt-Smith could meet society in proper style. Their parent-step-parents, Hungarian-born Banker Arpad Plesch and his four-times-married wife, laid out an estimated $25,000 to make the evening a success...
...whole force of Puerto Rico's tug at its bootstrap. The full change dates from the '303, when the economy revolved around the apathetic peasant sugar-cane cutter, and when industry-even rum-making-hardly existed. In 1940, Puerto Rico resolved that it was going to transform itself. Industrialization became a major goal. As a starter, the government bought out mossback electric companies, built dams, strung transmission lines, and thus provided the electricity that powers today's boom. But the most astute stroke was the 1942 creation of a government corporation, now called the Economic Development Authority...
...stop talking. She was gay, and her wit ran free. She leaned less on her friends, stood more on her own feet. Her health was better. The rashes, the sweats, the psychosomatic colds came less often. The old fears were still there, but now there was a way to transform them. "I never dared to think about it," says Marilyn, "but now I want to be an artist. I want to be a real actress...