Word: v
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Menninger could have found more on the topic in Mortimer Adler's Syntopicon-four listings (v. 15 for faith, 22 for love...
...over the U.S. Now that the alarm has been raised, many a businessman is not only revising his ideas about world trade; he is also doing something about costs. Cleveland's National Acme Co. brought out a new cam-finishing machine that does the job in 20 sec., v. 1 min. 15 sec. "What's just as important," says Acme's President T. L. Strimple, "we're being extra good in courting business in Europe and Asia. We give customers service, quick deliveries, parts, anything they ask for, just as if they were in Cleveland...
...finally found out how to make a TV set will no longer find a market here, because we've already found out how-to hang one on a wall," says Galvin, whose sales are $260 million, best ever. Another sign that quality can be sold: Paris' George V Hotel stocks a claret that bears the label, "Beaulieu Vineyard, Napa Valley, Calif...
...industrialization called forth new skills, the French workingman's average pay jumped 60% (to $80 monthly) in a decade; Danes and Norwegians average 84? an hour, v. 42? ten years ago, while Swedes get a minimum $1.16 an hour, v. 50? an hour in 1948. The British secretary who once considered herself lucky to draw $1,100 annually can command better than $2,800 in 1959. The sums may not be princely by U.S. standards, but they are enough to open up a new way of life...
Vastly more important than the statistical competition is the competition of ideas: capitalism v. Communism, free enterprise v. state control. And here in 1959, the true strength of the U.S. was in the spread of its ideas through deeds and example around the globe. More and more nations demonstrated that they are not interested in Russian borsch or communal Chinese gruel. Having tasted free enterprise, they are determined to sit down to the entire meal. The position of the U.S. was never stronger. But it would have to keep on exercising its leadership. FRB's Martin puts it flatly...