Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Martin dutifully carried out the orders with the reluctant help of Illinois' Les Arends. ranking Republican member of Vinson's committee. Joe Martin took one more step: he called a G.O.P. caucus and laid out the party line, reported afterward that 95% of the Republicans would go along with the amendments...
...protest against the plan from both Greece and Turkey did not match the private qualifications of those officials who realize that intransigence on both sides has got out of hand. While Greeks protested that there was no promise of future "self-determination," the Greek government was ready to go along with any compromise acceptable to Greek Orthodox Archbishop Makarios, leader of the enosis movement (the British were expected to allow the exiled Makarios to return to Cyprus). Although the Turks started riots on the grounds that the plan failed to provide for "partition," realistic Turks are aware that the partition...
Yvonne, daughter of a Calais biscuit-maker, has helped the general get his meals on time (lunch at 1, dinner at 8:30), at week's end sneaked home with him to Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, where they attended church, walked together along familiar country roads...
...Coincident Series includes key areas that have traditionally risen and fallen along with the general business cycle, e.g., corporate profits, industrial production. The Lagging Series includes areas that generally lag behind the curve of the economy, e.g., manufacturers' inventories and interest rates on business loans. Finally, the Leading, the Coincident and the Lagging Series are added together in a composite index, which is less sensitive but more accurate than the Leading Series alone. In the past, when the Leading Series turned in one direction and the Composite Series moved in the same direction several months afterwards, the economy...
...home town of Provo, Utah, by the glowing picture of dime-store opportunity painted by a local Woolworth manager. He started as a window trimmer, became a store manager in Denver at 20, soon proved to have the proper mixture for success: administrative talent with the ability to get along with people. He bossed stores in five cities across the nation, became manager of the Boston district before being called to Manhattan in 1954. ¶ George L. Cobb, 47, president of Zeller's Ltd., a Canadian variety-store chain affiliated with W. T. Grant Co., was appointed president...