Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ownership or operation. They must shop outside for top-drawer talent, then offer a substantial inducement for that talent to stay put. With sky-high taxes, sky-high salaries alone are no such inducement. The best inducement is to give top men a chance to build up what Wall Street calls "an adequate capital position," i.e., make more money...
Convulsions and Euphoria. They planned to build a house in California, ringed by "a paradise of palms shuddering with fornicating birds." The Count studied demonology and tried to make love to Solange by physical telepathy and black magic...
Love of country, admirable as a natural passion, was distorted into a fierce nationalism by William Shakespeare ("this happy breed of men, this little world") and a host of Romantics- including William Blake, who selfishly hoped to "build Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land...
Congress dished up $1,800,000,000 last week to build a million more tons of landing craft. Much of the money will be spent for the Navy's newest, the LSM (Landing Ship, Medium...
Many a solemn proponent of the free enterprise system, knowing how difficult it is in 1944 to build up an adequate capital position for executives, in order to make good corporate management worthwhile, pondered and argued the question: how can U.S. business pay its top men the salaries they are really worth? But while slow-moving conservatives pondered, fast-moving Harry Sinclair might well smile...