Word: complaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more sympathetic cooperation from automakers, plus federal legislation to ensure dealers a better profit by ending runaway price cutting, auto bootlegging and "phantom freight," a manufacturer's charge equal to the cost of shipping from Detroit, no matter where cars are shipped from. Dealers close to auto plants complain that bootleggers can pick up cars in Detroit without paying the charge, ship them around the country for less than the factory-set freight, thus gain an unfair advantage...
...inalienable rights, the job of directing Lamont as well as supervising the circulation and stacks of Widener is one that calls for skill and diplomacy. McNiff's skill in library science is a matter of record; his diplomacy evident to anyone who has stormed into his office to complain that Lamont doesn't subscribe to Virginia Gypsy Annual...
...Orchestral Society, conducted by F. Charles Adler; Unicorn). The composer of H.M.S. Pinafore, The Mikado, etc. finished this music in the freshness of his 20th year, and caused his betters to call him a second Mendelssohn. It is easy to see why, although admirers of his operettas will not complain about his later career...
...Geneva last week Chinese Reds who are negotiating with the U.S. broke five months of mutually agreed silence to complain that U.S. insistence on a Communist renunciation of force over Formosa is stymying any hope of settlement. From Hong Kong, TIME Senior Editor John Osborne cabled his evaluation...
...Yuval Gad, carefully tucking their side curls behind their ears before putting on their helmets. In the new immigration towns such as Acre and Jaffa, authorities mix the newcomers to speed integration. One apartment house may hold families from as many countries as there are apartments. Some Europeans complain of being put next door to "blacks," and Israel with all its other perplexities now must worry about the color problem...