Word: buts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Too Much Too Soon. In Washington, high Government officials admitted that they are appalled by the mulish stubbornness of both sides, but privately they tended to blame management more. They feel that management is trying to do too much in one contract, that it should settle the wage question now...
When Nazi Panzer divisions overran The Netherlands in World War II, one of the places they headed for first was the great Philips company electric works at Eindhoven. But hours before their arrival, 25 top Philips scientists and executives slipped away via British destroyers, carrying with them vital secrets that...
IS the Russian economy growing faster than the U.S.'s? Budget Director Maurice Stans last week decried the "cult of growth," which would spur federal spending, unbalance the budget, and touch off another burst of inflation. But International Business Machines' Thomas J. Watson Jr. called for new federal...
What are the facts of Russia's claim to be outstripping the U.S. in growth? The one unarguable fact, Central Intelligence Agency's Allen Dulles recently told the Boiling "growth" subcommittee of Congress, is that at the outset of World War I, Russia was the world's...
The textile experts said it was folly: garment factories could never flourish in Hong Kong because of lack of water and trained workers. Besides, there was the powerful new force of Japanese competition. But Chen Che Lee, a wealthy young Shanghai cotton manufacturer, fooled the experts. In 1946, with $1...