Word: prosperity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Selah! and may you live long and prosper...
...Italian drama and opera, il furbo [applied to Mussolini-TIME, June 21] ... is a not-too-sinister trickster and cheat whose schemes, for a time, prosper greatly. Invariably, however, he overextends himself and becomes involved in a fatal tangle. Only the intervention of providence, or some powerful protector who can make selfish use of his talents, saves him from final disaster. He emerges with his life, but shorn of all his gains...
...have not the slightest doubt that the study of the liberal arts will not only survive this war but prosper in the days of peace. For one thing, the present fighting generation and the younger boys in school will be tired of hearing even the names of science and technology. When the time for the resumption of normal education returns, a sharp reaction towards studies of a different type, a resurgence of deep interest in the liberal arts among students themselves, would seem to be inevitable...
Died. Charles Prosper Eugene Schneider, 74, one of the world's big munitions makers; in Paris. Hawk-nosed, trim-mustached, elegant, cynical, softspoken, he was the archetype of the cinethriller version of a mysterious merchant of death. He impartially sold arms to most of the warring nations of the world. He transformed France's famed Schneider et Cie. (Le Creusot) into an international power early this century, bought iron mines, mills, foundries, and shipyards in France, mines in Belgium and Poland, plants in Russia, finally founded the holding company, Union Européenne Industrielle et Financi...
Meanwhile two precious metals groups continue to prosper. Since Ihe U.S. remains technically on a gold bullion standard, the Treasury must accept gold at $35 per ounce when offered. Biggest offerer remains South Africa, where production has not been restricted for fear of political repercussions. Much less excusably, the Government also maintains its silver purchase scheme, which holds the domestic price at an artificial 71?. However tough it may get about nonessential gold mining in the U.S., the Administration is still not tough enough to cope with the Congressional Silver bloc...