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MACARTHUR : Not necessarily. A quick decision in Korea can avert World...
American Army was a decoy; 2) he thought a negotiated peace would avert a prolonged blood bath and eventual American defeat; 3) the fact that enemy forces held better ground at Monmouth justified his withdrawal tactics...
When the Federal Government has taken over railroads or coal mines to avert strikes, it has often handed out pay raises which the seized companies had previously refused to give. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court whacked down on the Government's habit of handing out other people's money. In a precedent-setting decision, the court held that the Government, not the company, must pay the losses resulting from added wage costs, and thereby laid the Government open to suits for millions of dollars in claims...
...night; Irénée's wife was permanently injured in a blast that killed 36 workmen in 1818; Lammot du Pont, father of the brothers Pierre, Lammot and Irénée, was mortally injured in 1884 while trying to "quench" some fuming nitroglycerin to avert a disaster. *Christiana, which still holds 27% of Du Pont stock, paid $200 a share for Coleman du Pont's stock. Each share of Du Pont common has since risen to a market value (counting splits) of $11,779 and has paid a total of $5,958.91 in dividends...
...Capital in January, one of its first actions was to restore the old delaying powers of the House Rules Committee. To show its appreciation, that committee is now sitting firmly on top of a bill to provide 2,000,000 tons of food grains for India which would help avert widespread famine in that country...