Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East German Parliament rubber-stamped the demand of the justice minister, Hilde Benjamin, for powers to prosecute fleeing citizens. They now are escaping from the satellite at the rate of about...
...Included in the show: America's Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley and Gilbert Stuart...
...long foreword by Editor Louis Untermeyer defending the record, and the book from which it is drawn, from a nonexistent attack by outraged moralists. Britain's Savoyard Martyn Green gives a chirruping reading of selected passages from Ovid's Art of Love, Boccaccio's Decameron, Benjamin Franklin's Advice on the Choice of a Mistress, as well as a clutch of risque limericks...
...airlines' biggest problems is the virtual impossibility of getting equity capital when profits are falling. Warned Benjamin Clark, general partner of Manhattan's White, Weld & Co.: Unless the air-transport industry can earn the favorable opinion of investors, and in particular of the professional investor, "either the industry's progress will stop or the taxpayers will have to subsidize it again." So far are investors from that state of mind right now, said Clark, that "we can visualize the industry, even with reasonably good luck, being able to generate only $227 million of the $610 million still...
FOREIGN TRADE Secret Weapon "I am convinced that we can win the cold war by means of a secret weapon all our own. That secret weapon is trade-trade under our system of capitalism and competitive enterprise-accompanied by capital investment and technical aid in undeveloped countries." So said Benjamin F. Fairless, onetime U.S. Steel boss and now president of the American Iron and Steel Institute. Fairless' words last week, spoken after an 18-nation tour as chairman of a seven-man presidential advisory group, were not lost on his audience: 2,500 top U.S. businessmen assembled...