Word: complainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expense, Leet made two trips to Washington in an effort to complain. One official of the Disarmament and Control Agency listened patiently to him and finally asked, "if your theories prove correct does it mean that we'll need more or less inspection in the Soviet Union?" When Leet answered "less," the official told him don't call us we'll call you. He was never called. He went to the Defense Department and was given a similar hearing...
...businessmen complain that the Kennedy Administration is ignoring the essential role of private enterprise in Alliance development, even though it talks of both "public and private" capital. New U.S. private investment in Latin America, apparently because of fears of more Castros. last year fell to a rock-bottom low of $90 million, down from $540 million...
...industry as a whole, profits run less than 2? on the dollar, which is one reason why textile stocks are selling below their book values and why textile wages are 20% below the U.S. manufacturing average of $2.10 an hour. With foreign textile wages lower yet, U.S. textilemen complain that they are now being overwhelmed by imports and want to suppress them. But, since imports have only 5% of the U.S. market, a few industry leaders are coming to realize that the anti-import argument does not wash too well...
...goal of increased productivity of the nation." It has also cost the U.S. its leadership in world cotton. Since rigid controls began in 1933, U.S. output has remained fairly stable at 14 million bales, while foreign production has grown from 14 million bales to 30 million. Textile makers also complain that the quality of U.S. cotton has deteriorated because the U.S. stands ready to buy whatever its farmers produce...
...suburban Westchester County. With the shrewd counsel of Lawyer Roy M. Cohn, 35, the boy Torquemada of the McCarthy era, Weinberg and friends bought up 23% of Fifth Avenue's stock for $3,500,000, put Weinberg in the driver's seat. Straightway, he began to complain that the company was barreling toward bankruptcy, demanded a fare boost from 15? to 20? to save it. Mayor Wagner, who had promised to hold fares down, would tolerate none of that. Roared Weinberg: "Somebody's a liar. Mayor Wagner says the company can operate with a 15? fare...