Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside the Soviet Union a vast literature, topped by Koestler's Darkness at Noon, grew up around the explanation of why the Old Bolsheviks had made Stalin's leap to absolute power easy by confessing (whether it was true or not) to a conspiracy against him. It was conjectured that they had done so 1) for ideological reasons, i.e., to preserve the monolithic party front, or 2) because their consciences were poisoned by the common guilt of Communist intrigue, or 3) to indicate obliquely, by admitting the incredible and fantastic, that they were being murdered. Later study...
...domination of the bus market, limit its expansion into such fields as diesels and earthmovers. It also suggested that G.M.'s profits are so high ("31% of its net worth" after taxes last year) that it could cut car prices. The committee overlooked the vast implications of that bit of advice: price cuts by G.M. would force price cuts by all automakers, almost certainly put the hard-pressed independents out of business and leave G.M. with an even bigger share of the market...
...Saws. At the Mansion House the elite of London's financial and industrial world was waiting to meet them. As they took their seats in the vast gold-columned Egyptian hall, they were serenaded by the Honorable Artillery Company band. Bulganin replied to toasts in a long, rambling speech which made the assembled capitalists fidget. When he quoted "an old Russian saying that Moscow was not built in a day," the hall rocked with laughter, without Bulganin having any idea what the joke was about...
...trawling grounds, the Japanese may not come within 100 miles of the Communist China coast. The coastal waters of North America, once a plentiful source of salmon and halibut, are now closed to Japan by a U.S. Canadian agreement that occupied Japan was persuaded to sign. And in the vast mid-Pacific tuna and bonito grounds, the U.S. has posted a 421,500-sq.-mi. nuclear testing area, which jittery Japanese fishermen have given a wide berth since radioactive ash fell on the Fortunate Dragon...
...year-old, Nelly Rivas, as his special favorite (TIME, Oct. 10). ¶ Atomic "Scientist" Ronald Richter, who never split an atom, expertly diffused $3,700,000 of Argentina's money in his fumbling attempts. ¶ Jorge Antonio, Mercedes-Benz tycoon and Perón crony, profiteered on so vast a scale that a subcommittee named exclusively to investigate him seriously recommended a fine of more than $1 billion. ¶ Defense Minister José Humberto Sosa Molina got from Perón 265 car import licenses, each worth more than $5,000. Army Minister Franklin Lucero...