Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Your Customers. What did all this mean? It simply meant that after war's dislocation, Latin American trade patterns were getting back to something like normal. Twelve years ago, Europe supplied about half Latin America's needs, took about half its exports; the U.S. took & received about one-third. At war's end, with Europe unable to resume its customary trade, U.S. exports to the Latin American market climbed to a peak of $4 billion in 1947 compared to Europe's $1 billion. But the U.S. could not absorb the same proportion of Latin America...
...essence of the film is its humor, but this is not a boffo type of comedy. Instead, the humor comes from the normal actions of the people themselves. The Abbey Players have caught the underlying comedy in the lives of the poor but happy country folk-in the Irish superstitions nature an typical multitude of minor sins. These qualities appear in the blind faith of the townspeople in the ability of Ma Murnaghan to predict the future and their rush to bet all their money on her choice in the Irish National...
...that the Nazis' coming meant" no more than a switch of anti-Semitic rulers. The book describes their slow wakening to the realities of race murder as the Germans first wall them in, then wipe them out, block by block. At its opening the trapped Jews are living normal city lives; at its close they can take a crying baby from its mother's breast and kill it, for fear of the Germans who are searching for hidden survivors. The book ends, symbolically, with a group of ghetto men, liberated from their trap, meeting the new kind...
Dunlop said that in his opinion the return to the mines will be virtually immediate. "Some will go back tomorrow, some the next day," he remarked, "and production will return to normal in several days...
...first action the Scholarship Committee is taking in meeting its financial aid problem is to use the surplus income that it accumulated during the war years directly for scholarship grants. This will allow one or two more years of relatively normal operation during which the Committee can plan its long range strategy. The annual income from the scholarship endowment is about $375,000, but with the help of the surplus the Committee was able to spend $472,000 last year and it will give away about $520,000 this year...