Word: bold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...style colonial imperialism is dead as an instrument of development. Capitalism must shoulder what President Harry Truman called a "bold new program." Specific examples of what capitalist enterprise can do were given by Nelson Rockefeller, president of the International Basic Economy Corp., a business with the avowed purpose of raising living standards through the use of American know-how in backward areas. The audience sat fascinated as he told how the corporation saved Brazil $100 million a year by spraying coffee plantations with an insecticide, killing an African pest called broca. With obvious pride in American resourcefulness, he gleefully described...
...Europe's future, Hoffman saw a bold and hopeful prospect: "In order to build a united Europe, you first have to build Europeans. The European organizations that have been formed and that are at work now are building Europeans. For the first time in history, a body of men are beginning to think and plan and build together as Europeans and not as nationals of separate states. They are developing more and more the habit of working together, of looking at their problems as common European problems. They are getting in the habit of having their economic plans criticized...
...spur slumping sales, Kaiser-Frazer Corp. last week took a bold step: it cut auto prices 10% to 15%, by far the biggest reductions made by any automaker since the war. The slash brought the list price of the lowest-priced model, the Kaiser special, to $1,995-a drop of $333. The smallest reduction was $198 on the Frazer. The company said that "starting up" costs had been absorbed and that steel end auto parts were now available at lower prices...
Later in the day at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Shapley criticized American foreign policy before a panel discussion on "Building and Planning." As moderator of the panel, he declared that the United Nations and not the United States should be carrying out President Truman's "bold now plan" of building up undeveloped areas...
Last week, in the first big retrospective show of Bloom's work ever held, there was plenty to look at besides painted corpses. Visitors at Boris Mirski's Boston gallery could see encrusted oils of blazing chandeliers, Christmas trees ribboned with light, melancholy rabbis and bold abstractions that have contributed to Bostonian Bloom's slowly growing reputation. Nonetheless, the five most discussed paintings in the show seemed to come straight from charnel house and morgue...