Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NOVEMBER: BERLIN. When the Kremlin's Khrushchev put out his provocative plan to turn prosperous, private-enterprise West Berlin into a "free city" demilitarized and disengaged from the cold war, the NATO governments proclaimed their intent to hold fast at Berlin. West Berliners themselves rejected Khrushchev's "free-city" plan by voting 98.1% to 1.9% against the Communist candidates in city elections. Score at halftime: West leading in defense of a key position deep in Communism's territory...
...industry that could turn the economy's slow growth into a gallop is autos, where the potential market is bigger than at any time
...pick them up all right," says Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Ewan Clague, "but it will take us most of 1959 to do it." Part of the reason is industry's rising productivity, which is expected to continue to rise smartly next year, and which in turn will hold down prices. Inflation showed up in almost every speech by leading economists in 1958, but not in prices. There was little doubt that rising costs, high demands, and big Government spending had woven some inflation permanently into the economy. The big question is: Can it be held...
...first-class way," serving such blue-chip firms as Du Pont, General Motors, International Harvester, American Telephone & Telegraph and U.S. Steel, many of which it had a hand in building. The bank began by marketing U.S. railroad securities abroad, took the lead in consolidating and merging railroads toward the turn of the century. From 23 Wall Street the elder J. P. Morgan stopped a run on the U.S. Treasury in 1895 by putting up gold for the Treasury, quelled the panic in 1907 by forcing leading bankers to produce enough cash to shore up shaky New York banks, put together...
...story is told in terms of a quest by the novelist for the heart of Manuel's mystery. Manuel's father worked on the coffee finca of Werner Poncet, a German planter of perverted tastes. After José had killed a man with a machete and in turn been murdered, Maria took flight from this Mexican Egypt to give birth to Manuel. From infancy he is one apart. He has a "disease" not quite epilepsy, but something that sometimes makes him unaware of things around him. At nine he whittles a wooden nail to wound his palm...