Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white-haired, monocled Premier Ion Gigurtu, who made his fortune in gold mining. Accompanying him was black-haired, swarthy Foreign Minister Mihail Manoilesco, who lost a fortune in coal mining. If anything good was coming to Rumania from Germany, Gigurtu was the man to get it. As a youth he studied at the Mining Academy in Freiberg, Germany, has kept his old German friends and made many more. He has long advocated closer economic cooperation between Germany and Rumania in the belief that they are geographically best suited to cooperate...
...wakes up," he advised foreign pressmen. "In 1932 when I was there, a young man with average intelligence, average brawn and average will to work could have hoped and did hope to amass enough to live comfortably. When I returned in 1939 I was astonished to find American youth no longer wished to work . . . women filling the jobs of men in industry and commerce, wearing too much make-up and refusing to bear children. I warn you . . . it is time for that nation to look to its future and wake...
Albert Kahn is a small, merry, 71-year-old architectural genius who spent his youth in a penny-pinching struggle to support an immigrant family of ten (including an impractical Rabbi father). He was 34 when the late Henry B. Joy, president of young Packard Motor Car Co., walked in and asked him to design a factory...
Last week, as Atlantic City sweltered under the year's record heat (98°), the almost ail-American Youth Orchestra gave its first concert. Five thousand sunburned boardwalkers listened, quietly sweating in the municipal Convention Hall. As the healthy-looking, white-clad youngsters swung into a tricky Bach Fugue in G Minor with veteran ease, many of the audience began to think they sounded remarkably like an outfit they had heard before: Stokowski's Philadelphia Orchestra. What with pretty blondes, earnestly tooting their trombones and horns, they looked very different. The 14-year-old Negro Trumpeter William...
...fortnight ago ordered no more flying there in training planes weighing less than 1,500 pounds. His order provoked a crisis in four flying schools which were training 135 college boys and girls as part of the Civil Aeronautics Board's nationwide pilot-training program for U. S. youth. Safair Inc. promptly grabbed National Airport at nearby Hicksville for its 60 students. The other three schools pooled their resources, graded, reconditioned, and in record time christened the East Meadow Auxiliary Field. There last week their students were once more soaring and zooming as CAB's first summer training...