Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although both Ford and General Motors have issued stern warnings against bootlegging, they are not anxious to bail out their dealers by cutting back production or lowering prices. For one thing, the Justice Department is already looking into the auto industry, worried because Ford and G.M. have gobbled up 83% of the auto market in their production race. Any price cut would only hurt such staggering independents as Studebaker, Hudson and Kaiser even more, and bring antitrust agents to Detroit at a dead...
...Though it had indeed pleased India's Nehru, it had risked Commonwealth ties in other quarters, annoying Australia and New Zealand, which are both anxious to get on with the Southeast Asia alliance for their own security...
...time alive." by which Ravenstreet can relive key events in his past with the added wisdom of hindsight. Under the influence of time alive, Ravenstreet realizes that he should have married an adoring mistress rather than the boss's daughter, and that Mervil and associates are evil men. anxious to clamp a power-mad elite on drug-happy masses (the theories of the '30s reappear here for a spell). Outfitted with a new set of values, Ravenstreet breaks with Lord Mervil and wins the forgiveness of his erstwhile mistress on her deathbed. Ravenstreet is eager to thank...
Into the jaws of American commercial television last week flew Britain's suddenly famed runner, Roger Bannister, the world's first four-minute miler (TIME, May 17). But just as the jaws were about to snap tight, cables crackled across the Atlantic, Parliament rocked and anxious hands reached out to preserve Roger Bannister for purer things...
...Macy & Co., Bloomingdale Bros., Abraham & Straus), but few manufacturers have the time or energy to slap a lawsuit on every small discounter. Some big companies such as Sunbeam, Magnavox and General Electric are trying to police their dealers rigidly. But many companies are none too anxious to lower the boom on discount stores that move large quantities of goods, since the manufacturer still gets his full markup. In fact, even businessmen who publicly condemn discount houses often deal with them privately. One big Chicago corporation recently bought all its employees Christmas presents from a discount house, picked up 700 radios...