Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defense officials worked mightily to comply with der Alte's exhortations. They assured Adenauer that his goal of 96,000 men in uniform by the end of the year would be met. There were 55,570 men already under arms, and recruits were pouring in at the rate of 4,500 a week. As fast as the Germans could accept them, U.S. tanks, self-propelled guns, 90-mm. antiaircraft guns, heavy machine guns and electronic equipment were rolling into German camps, part of a total $1 billion worth which the U.S. is giving the Germans to equip...
West Germany was rearming in a mood of sullen reluctance. All over Germany, civilians were reacting to anything military with bitter hostility. Restaurants and bars posted signs: "Men in uniform not wanted." Readers canceled subscriptions to newspapers and magazines which carried recruiting appeals. At dances, girls refused to dance with soldiers; it was demeaning, one girl explained. Every day, there were new incidents in which civilians had assaulted and roughed up some hapless recruit. Soldiers were jeered in the streets, had insignia ripped off their uniforms. In a Hamburg restaurant, a brawl started when civilian customers yelled at three soldiers...
...economy is a job as curator of a rubbish dump in London's bombed-out East End. Slightly addled but still marvelously eloquent after his life in the trenches, Old Cock has one friend, known only as "Arp" (from the initials on his Air Raid Precautions uniform jacket). A bomb had deprived Arp of everything -house, family, name, memory and speech. But Old Cock talks enough for two-his language flows like pig's ear in a boozer on Saturday night and is rich as hot gammon. In a country of free teeth he has only five blackened...
...midweek followed the commercial banks' lead by authorizing five district banks (New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Richmond and Cleveland) to hike discount rates for the sixth time in 17 months. The discount rate-the basic charge to member banks for short-term loans-is expected to reach a uniform 3% (up from 2¼%) at all Federal Reserve Banks this week, raising the banker's cost of borrowing to a 23-year high...
...phenomenon in a humming economy, tend to check inflationary tendencies. Moreover, the increase in U.S. productivity is keeping pace with the boom. At week's end, however, the Federal Reserve Board was reported ready to raise the rediscount rate, for the sixth time in 17 months, to a uniform 3%. The aim: to ease down on the boom before it gets out of hand...