Word: dependables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Protect Which Jobs? About 4,500,000 workers-one in 14-depend on foreign trade for a living. Since foreigners must sell to the U.S. in order to buy from the U.S., it follows, said Ike, that "the defeat of the trade agreements program would destroy far more jobs . . . than it could possibly ever preserve." But the President was not willing to rest his argument on self-interest. "It may be trite to say that trade is a two-way street, but is it trite to say that cooperative security is a two-way street? By no means. Allies...
...country might turn to the Soviet Union if its demands were not met. He warned: "Distinction must be made between friends and those who sit on the fence. While the latter are the recipients of large-scale aid from both Communist and Western countries, the former have to depend on their allies alone." More moderately, the Philippines' President Carlos Garcia and Thailand's Prince Wan Waithayakon echoed the Pakistan representative's plea for "more...
Commissioners themselves do not sit in on all cases, depend on examiners to brief them and justify their decisions. Many commission officials have little knowledge of how to conduct a hearing on industry's problems. At a recent CAB hearing, American Airlines President C. R. Smith snapped at a CAB counsel: "I don't know what you're talking about, and neither do you." When the record has accumulated, often to a height of five or six feet, the commissioners do not have time to read all or even most of it. Lawyers often take advantage...
...going "the country can expect a total collapse of its economy by 1960." The whole Ulbricht philosophy of export-at-any-price, and of imposing impossible production goals upon industry, had led "to an economy of permanent crisis." The country was grievously short of raw materials, can not even depend on the cheap coal that Poland now sells to the West...
Tonight they will be ready, and, as Wilson commented, "It'll all depend on the breaks." With so many records and titles at stake, the Crimson will have to get some of those breaks...