Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Laborite Harold Wilson called it "a mouse of a budget," but Labor was not too anxious to show itself in favor of inflation, for if threatened nationwide strikes occur soon, Labor stands to lose politically by them. In a TV broadcast, Heathcoat Amory agreed that to Britons his poor-mouth talk, when gold and sterling reserves had risen a billion dollars in six months, must seem "tiresomely cautious." But precisely because he did not bow to political pressures, the budget increased the new Chancellor's reputation. "It would be folly," said Harold Macmillan, "to be an island of inflation...
Partly, FRB acted to relieve a sharp $600 million drain on bank reserves caused by heavy purchases of gold by foreign nations, largely Great Britain, whose exchange position has improved dramatically in recent months. More important, the FRB was increasingly anxious to stimulate the lagging U.S. economy by making credit both cheaper and more plentiful...
...Boomlet. With the company in the black, the pair decided that the best way to get more and better pictures to distribute was to build up a stable of independent producers and stars to make them. The independents were only too anxious; they not only had free artistic rein, but by capital-gains deals could make millions if their pictures were successes. One of the first U.A. pictures, Bwana Devil, drew no critical hosannas, but it cashed in heavily on the 3-D boomlet it helped launch...
...once, diplomacy did a new quickstep in Djakarta. As if anxious not to get too tied to the Communists or too detached from the U.S., Premier Djuanda honored U.S. Ambassador Howard P. Jones with a dinner at his official residence; Speaker of Parliament Sartono expressed his gratitude for U.S. economic and technical aid, and Sukarno's chief of staff, Major General Nasution, curtly put a stop to all anti-American parades and demonstrations, ordered everyone, in and out of government, to "respect the sound mutual relationships between all countries and peoples...
Many of the cars were scooped up by dealers anxious to cash in on the sudden rise in the popularity of small foreign cars, whose chromeless lines are a far cry from Detroit's behemoths. But retail sales also zipped along at supermarket speed. Jaguar sold its entire yearly production of 2,100 of its new XK 150 ($5,000) and the six-month production of its Mark VIII sedan, decided on the spot that it will be able to sell 12,000 cars in the U.S. next year instead of the projected 7,500. West Germany...