Word: capitaliste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...middle of a round of golf one day last spring, Capitalist John Hay Whitney and Crooner Bing Crosby began to talk about-of all things-frozen orange juice concentrate. "Jock" Whitney thought he had hold of a good business proposition, and by the time they had got to the 19th Bing was all ears. Last week the Whitney-dominated Vacuum Foods Corp. (Minute Maid frozen orange juice concentrate) announced the deal they made...
...four cardinal sins: 1) he lacked "understanding of the . . . leading role of the Russian Communist Party in the international front combating [U.S.] imperialism"; 2) he suffered from nationalism; 3) he had an "unconquered and repeatedly renascent social democratic attitude"; 4) he had a "tendency to postpone the struggle against capitalist elements feeding upon exploitation of the poor and medium-sized peasantry...
...capitalist system last week faced a new menace. It was the shmoo (plural: shmoon, or colloquially, shmoos...
...capitalism, then, doomed to go down before the shmoo? Not at all. Old Man Mose totally misunderstood the nature of the capitalist system and of the economic animal. A striking illustrative example came from a point due east of Shmoo Valley-San Francisco-where a man named Ott Straub recently opened a new eating place. It was a drive-in, with its own radio station which broadcast any desired tune to the customers eating below; it had a dining room, a cocktail lounge, an open-air patio, and 85 carhops...
Tossing on his canopied bed in his crenelated castle, Prince Vittorio spent sleepless nights, sweating with worry. Later he said that he worked out this argument: "If we live in a capitalist world, that land is ours because it has belonged to my family and Arsoli for generations. If we live in a Christian state and the capital takes water from us, it should at least not let us starve." The young prince remembered that his family includes two Popes-St. Anastasius (died 401) who denounced the Origenist heresy, and St. Pasquale (died 824) who stood up to the Frankish...