Word: deal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lyndon Johnson believes that he and his party should be rope-dealers: just deal out enough rope to the Republicans and let them hang themselves." Last week Lyndon Johnson was still dealing out rope, and it was time to see how he was getting on with the hanging. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Sense & Sensitivity...
...with the answers was Humphrey, Hanna vice president and a director. He was interested in nothing less than complete control, and took off on a whirlwind trip to Brazil. He looked over the mine, talked to Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek and in six days lined up a deal. Said D'el Key's British manager: "A very dynamic chap, Humphrey. He never even stopped...
Last week M. A. Hanna announced that it had control of St. John D'el Key and would operate it. The details of the deal were secret, but there was no secret about the richness of the prize. Though D'el Key's British owners dug nearly $300 million worth of gold over the years from a maze of galleries running five miles into the earth, they never laid a serious shovel on the iron. In fact, they had bought the lematite ridges humping hundreds of feet high around the property only to protect water rights...
Died. Edward Asbury O'Neal, 82, onetime (1931-47) president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, influential voice in the shaping of New Deal farm policies, key figure (with Henry A. Wallace) in the passage of the first Agriculture Adjustment Act and the subsequent Soil Conservation Act; in Florence, Ala. O'Neal watched with satisfaction his federation's membership grow from 276,000 to 1,275,000 during his tenure as president, once said of farm production: "We should figure out our future on the basis of human needs-of goods and service...
This outbreak is not unique. The news seeps out that a similar occurrence took place among the Eskimos, who superstitiously exposed all the strange children to death, and in Russia, which ideologically blasted the unwelcome visitors out of the world with an atomic cannon. How will the commonsensical British deal with this nonsensical problem? Author Wyndham expends the imagination and skill of a serious novelist on resolving the question. Incidentally, he gives a depressingly convincing picture of British social life. Wyndham has chosen to write about the impossible but has the talent to prove that it happened...