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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western Europeans built more than double the number of housing units than the U.S., at a time when U.S. builders were hammering away at a near record 1,350,000 new homes...
...Japanese had rebuilt their country so fast that they had been able to send $1.2 billion worth of investments overseas (including a Bank of Tokyo branch in Los Angeles), and had become a creditor instead of a debtor nation for the first time in history...
...found the change astounding. Eleven years ago the manager of IBM's big plant at Essonnes, France asked Watson for permission to build a shed to house the workers' bicycles; two years later he said he needed to enlarge the shed to accommodate all the motorcycles. "Next time I was there," says Watson, "our manager explained that they were having to put blacktop on one of the fields; we needed the space for the workers' cars...
...their democratic destiny ("In those wretched Countries where a Man cannot call his Tongue his own, he can scarce call any Thing else his own"). But entertainment always had priority on instruction. None of the humor would draw a belly laugh today, though it was probably uproarious at the time; e.g., "We are informed that one Piles a Fidler, with his Wife, were overset in a Canoo near Newtown Creek. The good Man, 'tis said, prudently secur'd his Fiddle, and let his Wife go to the Bottom...
...staying there for months-despite the fact that, when it appeared in 1958, it attracted no more critical attention than its nonsensical content of pseudo medicine and pseudo science deserved. Probably least surprised by Folk Medicine's success was 64-year-old Texas Wheeler-Dealer Clint Murchison (TIME cover, May 24, 1954), a disciple of Dr. Jarvis' Honegar cult, who persuaded him to write the book and persuaded Holt to publish it-no trick, since Murchison controls Henry Holt...