Word: directs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dick Russell did not direct the tactics that broke the bill. That was the work of Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson, who was more interested in holding together a Democratic Party than in preserving the extreme rights of the Deep South. But Rearguard Commander Russell chose the intellectual battlefield, laid down the lines of argument, and was never dislodged by the overwhelming manpower mustered by the Republican leadership, by the Democrats' own liberals, by the brigades of Administration lawyers, or even by the President of the U.S. It was one of the notable performances of Senate history...
...well. Indeed we created many of them and have done our best to ensure their integrity and prosperity. But it is anomalous that the vote or prejudice of any small country should affect events involving populations many times exceeding their number, and affect them as momentary self-advantage may direct...
...German cause. Hitler's Ribbentrop spared no effort to snare him. Sympathetic Spaniards and Portuguese were enlisted in the effort, and Walter Schellenberg, head of the Gestapo's counter-espionage organization, was sent to Lisbon at the head of an 18-man task force to direct the operation. The mission got off to a fine start when the Windsors arrived in Portugal, en route to the Bahamas, and found the British embassy swarming with refugees seeking aid. The British ambassador, desperate for a place to bed them down, finally settled on a proffered villa in Estoril, only...
...offer goods on a deferred-payment plan-at 8.5% interest. Russia and Eastern European satellites, on the other hand, have been quick to inform India that they are eager to grant deferred payments-and at only 2.5% interest, a political price which U.S. observers feel is significant (though direct Russian-Indian trade is at present only 3.2% of India's overall foreign trade...
Into the World Market. Bossed by Dr. Ulrich Haberland, 56, who ran two Bayer plants during the war and was picked by the British at war's end to direct the combine of Farben plants that now make up Bayer, the company is rapidly moving into foreign markets. Burgeoning Bayer has recently opened plants in Argentina, Brazil and Chile; it is building another in Mexico and, together with Farbwerke Hoechst, will add still another in Pakistan. In the U.S. it owns a 50-50 interest, with Monsanto Chemical Co., in West Virginia's Mobay Chemical Co. (polyurethane plastics...