Word: deal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shafer: They got a deal over there, boy. Those union men can go over there and get any BEEP BEEP thing done you want done. They are stronger than BEEP over there...
...Cuban rebellion. The Puerto Rican government built the hotel for $6,000,000. leased it for two-thirds of the net to Associated Federal Hotels, a Southwestern chain (Phoenix's Westward Ho, San Antonio's Gunter), which spent another $1,200,000 on furnishings. (A similar deal for San Juan's Caribe Hilton, which has been a consistent moneymaker, will net the government about $1,500,000 this year...
...sandri, against foreign (and specifically U.S.) investments. They pledged themselves to fight for the "national liberation" of Chile by adding to the popular front they have already formed with the Socialists. President Alessandri, who barely, beat Socialist Candidate Salvador Allende in September's election, will plainly have to deal with a threat that is growing faster than he could have guessed...
...jammed the committee room for hearings last week heard Rep. Wilbur D. Mills (D. Ark.), chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Internal Revenue Taxation, indicate that the present tax is out of line with what other industries pay. Mills made it clear that a new deal must be worked out for Congress...
...good Britons. Writer McMinnies' characters spend a good deal of time brooding over breeding. Her characters are as itchily class conscious as if they knew they wore shirts made of the wrong kind of hair and were too proud to scratch. The trouble begins when beautiful Milly Purdoe starts the hanky-panky with the diplomatic bag and makes a baggage of herself with her husband's friends. Unfortunately, the natives are better at this sort of thing, and Milly only proves that Britons never should be Slavs...