Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...raises or lowers its prices steel-using industries will automatically raise or lower theirs, U.S. Steel Corp. Board Chairman Roger M. Blough had a curt reply: "Sheer economic superstition." Said Blough last week: "All the money the American people spend for steel in a year is so small, in comparison to their total expenditures for all the other things they buy, that any change in the price of steel is overwhelmed by the price movement of other goods and services which make up the average family budget...
...group of madrigals Schmidt used a reduced chorus of two dozen. An interesting comparison was afforded in two settings, a half century apart, of the same text--one, by Vecchi, lyric and smooth; the other, by Arcadelt, more dramatic. The singers displayed excellent precision in Lo Schernito, one of the bright and rapid fa-la-la pieces that Gastoldi made a specialty. There followed an amusing Impromptu, written last year by the talented young composer Kirke Mechem...
...quiet, businesslike politico who seldom invites comparison with his rambunctious predecessor James Michael Curley, Boston's Mayor John Hynes visited Italy last week on a good-will mission from his Italian-American constituents to the all-Italian citizens of Rome, and managed to kick up a fuss that out-curled Curley at his bushy-tailed best. Gallivanting about Rome with 60 other rubbernecking Bostonians, Democrat Hynes got himself photographed with a nestful of Neo-Fascists, was front-paged by happy Communists and indignant Conservative dailies alike. Some newspaper reports alleged that Hynes had visited the Neo-Fascist headquarters...
...numbers of workers and students in certain places went on strike. The immediate cause of these disturbances was failure to satisfy certain of their demands for material benefits. Because of their lack of experience in political and social life, quite a number of young people cannot make a proper comparison between the old and the new China...
...President's request is expected to ride through Congress with little opposition. Said House Appropriations Committee Member John J. Rooney: "The Russian people would inevitably compare our products with those available to them, and we would certainly win such a comparison...