Word: better
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well-informed student of international trade, but it seems to me that Britain's inability to earn dollars is at least partly the result of our tariffs . . . While the suspension of tariffs would by no means balance the British budget, it would give British products a better chance to sell, and, conceivably, give Britain more of a chance to earn what she spends. Therefore I think it unjustified to omit our tariff system when discussing the causes of Britain's economic situation...
...Harry Truman was really looking for a working definition of "statism" (see The Presidency), New York's Senator John Foster Dulles was happy to oblige. "Statism," said Dulles, "represents man's conceit that he can build better than God. God created men & women with great moral possibilities . . . But sometimes those in power lose faith in their fellow men . . . They take more & more of the fruits of human labor, so that they may, as they think, do more & more for human welfare . . . That process . . . makes human beings into mere cogs in a man-made machine...
...failure it might close up entirely if it had to stretch its payroll. At a special meeting last week, the Norwalk rubber workers voted, 124 to 45, to drop their demands and to take wage cuts averaging 11? an hour. Explained Union Secretary Caesar Malaterra: "Members felt it was better to keep working than to take a chance of having no jobs...
...government convened last week. On the final night, 1,500 workers mopped the floors, polished the windows, hung the draperies, arranged the potted plants. At dawn a tired old charwoman sank into a green leather chair and groaned: "All I can say is, something good had better come out of all this." The new democratic government was Germany's chance to work her passage back...
...Wilson thought that management itself was partly to blame for the union demands. It had not made its case clear to employees and it would have to do better. Said he: "For the last six months, in every plant we have, management has gone in and given [workers] the low-down facts on the business ... I think they are entitled to know. I know that if I were back at the bench working I would want to know a darned sight more than I was told. Forty-five years ago, they told me nothing...