Word: automaticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last March Touré received a shipment of arms from Czechoslovakia that included 3,000 rifles and automatic weapons. Last week another shipment (the third) arrived on a Polish vessel. When Paris expressed alarm at the deals, Touré angrily denounced the "hostile attitude of French diplomacy."
Besides wages, there are other explanations for the loss of the U.S. competitive edge. Some U.S. exporters fail to study the foreign market, use it only as a dumping ground for surplus that they cannot sell to the U.S. For example, Germany dominates the radio-set market in Ecuador because...
Nombre de Dios, an isolated town on the Caribbean coast only 20 miles from the Panama Canal, was siezed by the rebel mercenaries after they landed from Cuba on Sunday and marched 35 miles up the coast. The band now numbers 89 men and is reported armed with automatic weapons...
As a sweetener to veteran-conscious Congress,* the bill would boost some 55% of the present, inflation-shrunken pension checks at a cost of an added $100 million the first year. But it offers the first promising check on the automatic boosters built into pension laws.
* Busiest hecklers: the Veterans of World War I, nicknamed "Wonnies," newly formed professional veterans organization, now luring members from the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars with its promise to lobby through an automatic $100-a-month pension.