Word: catchingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With food prices skyhigh, unsanitary housing, insufficient transportation, Poles rioting, Hungarians grumbling, Chinese thinking, a guy has to do something to stay in business ; Nikita therefore had to shoot the sputnik to give them something to shout about. Their "moonitchko" is only the result of a desperate gamble to catch the imagination (of the Russians) and the headlines (of the West). To yell at our own scientists and planners because they are taking their time to produce a product for space research is merely harmonizing with Nikita's tune and falling for the decoy...
National Pride. Banker Cuaderno was heartily seconded by Minocher Masani, an Independent member of the Indian Parliament, longtime adviser to the famed Tata Sons, Ltd. and one of India's best-known and most widely respected capitalists. "National pride," said Masani, "demands that one should catch up, if not with the prosperity of the U.S. or Canada, at least with that of France or Italy. The Asian intellectual casts his eyes around for some method by which his country can pull itself up almost overnight by its bootstraps. Only too often, Communism is not to him the brave...
...Pulitzer Prize); of chronic hepatitis; in Mineola, N.Y. A.F.L. Organizer De Koning bullied his way from Local 138 of the International Union of Operating Engineers into a prosperous, politically insured Nassau County kingdom, reputedly decided who could or could not construct a new housing development. Expanding in 1943 to catch some of Roosevelt Raceway's runaway revenue, he raked in kickbacks from nearly everybody, erected the Labor Lyceum, containing a meeting hall, restaurant and Long Island's biggest bar (where union members spent liberally to stay in his good graces), had his union help build him a lavish...
Died. Neal Ball, 76, jovial onetime shortstop for the Cleveland Naps (later the Indians), first major leaguer to stage an unassisted triple play; after long illness; in Bridgeport, Conn. On July 9, 1909, with visiting Red Sox runners on first and second, Ball made a diving catch of a line drive for one out, fell on second for two, recovered and tagged the first-base runner for three...
...losses against gains made earlier, forced selling on margin accounts as prices declined beyond what traders could bear. Underlying all was the growing uncertainty about the course of the U.S. economy, and indeed the nation itself. Early announcements that the U.S. would not embark on a crash program to catch Soviet Russia's earth satellite had a depressing effect. Investors were increasingly worried about high interest rates that led economists to forecast a slight fourth-quarter decline in the rate (currently $37 billion annually) of expenditures for new plant and equipment, the first drop since the first quarter...