Word: complaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been run by Sherman Adams and "some guy called Watson and his 3,000 IBM machines." Abroad, Alfred Krupp will deny that he now owns the controlling stock in the French Republic. Nikita Khrushchev will bring a formal complaint to the United Nations General Assembly. The Soviet Ruler will complain that the United States has been distributing subversive literature along Russia's northern coast with the aid "of a sneaky saboteur who travels in a kayak...
While most European nations complain that their economies will not support greater military expenditures and talk of reductions, the most significant economic fact about Western Europe is the explosive postwar expansion of its industrial output. By 1956 industrial production of NATO's Western European members showed the following increases over prewar (1937-38) levels...
...conventional defenses than on the wasteful French A-bomb program (TIME, Dec. 9). Britain also wants greater pooling of scientific talent. "The Germans are free to devote 95% of their technological know-how to their export drive while we have 70% of ours tied up on defense work," they complain...
...have little use for exposes, play down stories of sex and crime. "A newspaper, to suit me," said Gannett, "must be one that I would be willing to have my mother, my own sister or daughter read." Many readers, particularly in the 15 cities where Gannett has a monopoly, complain that the modern mothers would not object to livelier coverage or sharper writing...
INSTALLMENT BUYERS are giving the bill collectors a tough time, especially in areas hit by defense layoffs. More than 40% of the lenders who report to American Bankers Association complain that credit delinquencies are rising, and better than 30% of the reporting areas are experiencing an unusual increase in automobile repossessions...