Word: broads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throughout the broad farm belt the U.S. farmer is determined to live as well as his city cousin. And he has the money...
...Brussels World's Fair, a white-haired man sat expressionless, arms folded, as the circular screen showed movies of U.S. great scenery and U.S. great works. It was the Fourth of July. Suddenly, when the screen showed an aerial view of scarred old mountains and a broad lake and in the midst of them the Colorado River's gleaming Hoover Dam, the old man acknowledged the applause of a small group of Americans standing around him. Thus was Herbert Clark Hoover, 83, happily reminded of his days as President of the U.S. (1929-33) as he served...
Gerhard Martin Sommer, the man in the wheelchair, had indeed been at Buchenwald-but not as a prisoner. As the master of the punishment cellblock between 1938 and 1943, Sommer was the broad-shouldered bullyboy who, in the words of West German Prosecutor Helmut Paulik, perpetrated "probably the most hideous group of sadistic atrocities unearthed since the war." In the camp where Use Koch, wife of the camp commandant and the "Bitch of Buchenwald." purportedly made lampshades of human skin (she is serving a life term), SS Guardsman Gerhard Martin Sommer went so far in sadism that even his Nazi...
...excises at present levels, generally in line with the Administration's hold-the-line policy against tax cuts. Single exception: repeal of federal taxes on air, truck, railroad and other freight transportation, a compromise to head off the Senate's demand for a repeal of a broad range of transportation taxes (TIME, June...
...Style & High Price. One of the problems is that U.S. furniture is low on style and high on price. But there are deeper reasons for the slump, as the biggest furniture maker, Kroehler Manufacturing Co. (1957 sales: $90.5 million) learned in a broad market survey released last week. The U.S. housewife, reported Kroehler, believes that her reputation for "good taste" depends greatly on her selection of furniture. But she does not know for certain what "good taste" is, and the furniture industry has done little to help her learn. In choosing furniture, the American woman "must do credit...