Word: deal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Guatemala's hard-fought presidential election had failed to give any candidate a clear majority, front-running General Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes, 62. knew" just what to do. With the skill he had shown at winning votes from illiterate Indians, the old right-wing campaigner worked out a deal that seemed certain to bring him the presidency through the aid of his principal opponent. Colonel José Luis Cruz Salazar of the moderate Nationalist Democratic Movement (M.D.N...
...Said General Manager Kelly: "This is a world of competition. We've got an internal problem of our own. We have a right to release a man if we want to." But the citizens' committee was still standing by to see that the editor gets "a fair deal." Said Bookstore Owner (and Committee Spokesman) Herbert W. Kanthak: "We are like a panther sitting in a tree...
Though wisely confined to a single significant phase of Roosevelt's career, the play is not a great deal more than a well-composed opportunity for Actor Bellamy. That it fails to be more stems partly from the nature of the undertaking. Playwright Schary is constantly concerned with domestic rather than public matters, not least with home and mother-things that dictate a pretty gingerly and sugar-tongued approach. Some of the play's characters are never really used; some never come alive because of the ticklishness of treating people still actually alive. As a family play, Sunrise...
...President Truman and his brother and sister inherited about 600 acres of Missouri farmland from their mother. In various deals since then, the Trumans have sold all but 40 acres at undisclosed prices. When Truman closed the most recent deal last month, selling 220 acres for a housing development to be known as Truman Village, the value of the land was locally estimated as $1,000 or more an acre...
COKE FOR REDS, who long reviled U.S. drink as typical of imperialist West, is on the way. Coca-Cola, which operates almost everywhere outside the Iron Curtain, expects to close deal with Poland to open bottling plant in city of Danzig...