Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Stettinius Associates, World Commerce Corp. plans to provide capital equipment and technological know-how. It already has representatives in 47 countries and six partially owned subsidiaries in Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Egypt, Panama and the Philippines. To overcome the world dollar shortage, it has set up a complex system of bartering currencies and goods. The corporation provided the dollars to buy raw materials from Sweden for a British manufacturer, took payment in British goods. It also started a $3,000,000 cement plant in Jamaica with capital in English sterling, machinery and supplies from Canada...
...piped up with, "So what ... I'd bet too, if I thought a tip was any good." If he had any fault, it was his reluctance to yank pitchers when the going got rough. But his patience worked wonders with Joe Page, a relief pitcher with an inferiority complex who did more than any player-aside from DiMaggio-to bring the Yankees their 14th pennant in 27 years...
...using the specifically reproduced copy, the VTW will be able to hurdle the complex technical difficulties of cutting and staging so evident in Shakespearean drama. Although Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson won't be playing the leading roles, VTW members feel that they got the next best thing...
...week's end the Colombian Government had apologized for the rioting. The Foreign Ministry, calling the controversy "important and complex," promised that a solution satisfactory to both countries would be found...
Edward J. Flynn, boss of The Bronx, is far less colorful and articulate than Penrose, far more aware of the significance of his job than Kelly and his kind. Flynn is the new-style boss, well-educated, personable, thoroughly equipped to understand the more complex aspects of modern government. His machine is run from an office building, not from a hotel lobby or a clubhouse. It has a filing system, bylaws and rigidly constructed channels of command...