Word: trim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...onetime boy wonder is still trim as a college oarsman, and the father of two grown sons-one a senior at Harvard, the other a reporter on the Boston Herald with two daughters of his own. They are an affectionate, companionable family, and father & sons love to get together on weekends to construct, amidst fierce debates, intricate and massive dams across the stream that flows through the Lodge property. Lodge seldom takes a drink, and quit smoking in 1946 so as "to be in the best possible condition." A man of relaxed charm, he works hard at being modest...
...South, the land of cotton, sharecropping and mortgages, is the fastest changing region of the U.S. From the southern Atlantic seaboard west to Arkansas and Louisiana,* trim, modern factories have sprung up in the cities, the small towns and the open fields. Since the beginning of World War II, industry has invested billions in new Southern plants, put 2,000,000 Southerners on new, steady payrolls, and started the dynamics of history's first enlightened industrial revolution...
Tastes: Does not smoke; weaves rope belts which he gives to friends; dabbles in astronomy for fun; saws wood to keep in trim...
Pearl Harbor Day, 1951, finds Japan a rising sun once more, and the snow on the manly pine melting fast. The most dynamic, aggressive and industrialized people in Asia are again preparing themselves for the responsibilities and delights of sovereignty. Already the scene is changing. Trim, alert members of the National Police Reserve (nucleus of the army Japan must inevitably raise to defend herself) train with U.S. carbines, mortars, bazookas and light machine guns. The old zaibatsu (financial cliques) are reviving under new names. Recently a dozen offspring of the old Mitsubishi Commercial Co. combined into four large firms...
Before Christmas, Sears retail stores will start selling the Allstate, a new car made for it by Kaiser-Frazer. The car will look like K-F's four-cylinder Henry J, differing only in trim and other incidentals. Sears did not set a retail price but it now sells for $1,362 f.o.b. Detroit. Sears will sell it in 17 cities in the South and Southwest...