Word: 1940s
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Thottam's report on the dangers of Chinese imports, from toys to seafood, takes me back to the 1940s, when Japan had a struggling economy. "Made in Japan" was a byword for inferior products. If economists' predictions prove correct and China progresses similarly, both economically and politically, the entire world will be a safer place, and the U.S. will be fighting for economic survival...
...bareback riding--or just the greatest rough-stock rider ever? One thing was not in dispute: Hall of Famer Jim Shoulders, the "Babe Ruth of rodeo cowboys," had an unusual tolerance for pain. Among the bones he broke while riding to a record 16 world championships in the 1940s and '50s: both arms (twice), his collarbone (three times) and 27 bones in his face. After breaking a hand during a ride, he switched to the other one and won. His celebrity expanded in the early '80s when he sparred with Billy Martin in TV ads for Miller Lite...
...India's current food-distribution system is a legacy of the 1940s and '50s, when chronic food shortages led the government to crack down on hoarding of produce by unscrupulous cartels. In 1966 the government introduced a new law that banned farmers from dealing directly with retailers and forced them to sell through licensed middlemen, called mandis. The law, which also aimed to give farmers a fair and consistent price, "was initially done with a good purpose," says Arpita Mukherjee, a senior fellow at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, a New Delhi-based think tank...
...with just the hint of scenery - but he found so much meaning and ache in the show that it didn't matter. Stripped of its finery, Follies was now pure and profound. He also seamlessly integrated the older stars playing the 1970s characters with the young actors playing their 1940s incarnations, cheerful and naive, committing the one forgivable sin of youth: to hope...
...Company.“It’s kinesthetically very natural,” Koch says of the Limón style of dance, which José Limón, an artistic contemporary of Martha Graham’s and Alvin Ailey’s, first introduced in the 1940s. “It’s based on the principle of allowing gravity to do what it does naturally.”When Koch first began experimenting with the Limón technique, she found it difficult to let go of her classical training and adopt the freer movements...