Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...message begins when Guinness tries to put his indestructible fabric on the market. He is of course opposed by the "vested interests" of capital and labor, both of which would be annihilated by the inevitable revolution in the textile industry that his invention would cause. To avoid this overproduction crisis, the fabric gets suppressed, and the consumer gets it in the neck. Actually this film may soothe a lot of nasty old mossbacks, who may infer that government intervention is necessary only when Alec Guinness comes along and invents a material which will throw a whole segment of the economy...
...your April 7 editorial on the President's bowing-out speech, you said that Mr. Truman "did not develop the ability to look ahead, to avoid the crises, to build...
...meat-packing workers, WSB approved a 9? increase to avoid a strike, even though 3? was the permissible limit...
That democracy must come from within, not from without. It is up to Cubans, not the U.S., to make military coups obsolete. Meanwhile, so far as Latin America is concerned, the U.S. can only be the Good Neighbor, avoid undue interference, practice Point Four and cultivate the long view. The making of democracy takes, among other things, time...
...word 'masses.' The audience isn't 'masses.' It's made up of individuals, no two of whom are exactly alike and plenty of whom, bud, have just as much sense as you. Keep that thought in mind, and you'll almost automatically avoid the worst mistakes commonly made...