Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Germany's Wesphalia "camping bus," which looks like Volkswagen's utility bus, has beds for two in the back. Price: $2,195. A second German car: the NSU Sport Prinz with seats for four, a two-cylinder engine that gets 55 miles per gal., and a price...
...amazing document that lambasted bankers for "violation of trust," "barren feudalistic prejudice" and "misuse of funds." The angry author using the bank's stationery: A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, who had taken a rapping from National City and, like any good politician, wanted equal time to rap right back...
What made Meany sore was National City's August letter, which criticized what it termed the "abuses of organized labor's power," went on to defend right-to-work laws, and quoted more than a dozen economists to back its case. Hopping mad, union leaders first wanted to withdraw their funds from National City, then decided to let George do it-on banker's hours. Said Meany, before tweaking the bank for everything from monopoly to Communism: "A most unscholarly collection of myths and half-truths about the American labor movement...
Stilwell had an infantryman's myopia when it came to the real uses of airpower (he even walked out of Burma after his defeat, though Pilot Scott had flown in to rescue him), and Marshall could be relied on to back Stilwell in any disagreement with Chennault. Moreover, as Author Scott only suggests, Stilwell bitterly disliked Chennault's friend, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. The overriding issue of Chinese Communism is all but unmentioned in Scott's book, although the Marshall and Stilwell blindness to the Communists' real purpose lay at bottom of their inability...
WASHINGTON, April 12--Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, looking pale and underweight, flew back from Florida today for further medical treatment...