Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could not for long avoid the crucial issues of labor and taxes. At week's end John L. Lewis sharpened one of them still further when negotiations over a new coal contract broke up without results. With such an example before him, the President might well convince himself that the pending bill did not overly disturb the rights of labor. Besides, Congress would probably pass it over his veto. But a tax cut was directly up to Truman. The Republicans did not have the votes to beat a veto there...
...Navions were made, only 841 sold. But Dutch Kindelberger feels that Navion production kept his staff together till North American could acquire a backlog of $177 million in military contracts, enough to keep the company virtually intact. But Kindelberger did not get off the griddle fast enough to avoid a serious burn. On the Navion, North American lost around...
...protect radio listeners from commercials was put on sale by Los Angeles' Gray Development Corp. The gadget plugs in at the radio's electric outlet and has a ten-foot cord leading to two pushbuttons. When the armchair listener hears a singing commercial which he would rather avoid, he presses button No. 1; the radio is cut off for 15 seconds. For a straight spiel, he pushes button No. 2, silencing the radio for 60 seconds. (The time interval can be adjusted.) Sales the first week: 1,000. Price...
Though many an American hoped that the loan would help France's Government in its struggle with the Communists, the French Government itself was playing down that line to avoid cries of "dollar diplomacy." Plain Frenchmen regard the Bank's credit as a U.S. loan. Said a middle-class Paris housewife, when asked how she felt about American aid to France: "The Communists say we are getting closer to the Americans because that persuades the Americans to help us. But what is so disgraceful about that? Isn't that what you do in business every...
...Shue Fly, who is really a glorified range horse and bred for short racing, Princess was royally sired (by Kentucky Derby winner Bold Venture). She had once flashed dizzy speed on regulation race tracks-but couldn't seem to go farther than half a mile and win. To avoid bumping or foul play in the match race of the year, a special rail had been built straight down the middle of the quarter-mile straightaway, making it a two-lane track. The race started with a roar from the crowd: "Look at 'em come...