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Word: distrusters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gold-plated A.L.P.A. realized that it had been a grave tactical error to strike at Christmas. Both sides admitted that there had been no outstanding issues between American and the pilots. But American pilots have been flying without a contract for 16 months, and so much bad blood and distrust welled up in the dragged-out negotiations that the American pilots decided to strike at any cost. They had little to lose. A.L.P.A. pays pilots up to $650 a month in strike benefits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: High-Flying Strike | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

Stratton will take over Jan. 1, and Killian, 54, will continue as President Eisenhower's assistant, step up to the M.I.T. board chairmanship. Early this year the president-elect wrote: "We in America have been curiously plagued by the fear of an intellectual elite. We have tended to distrust intellectual achievements that are not to be had by everyone on equal terms. There has been too little pride and understanding among Americans of the quality of excellence." Julius Stratton, a reserved man who wears a banker's conservative suits and would be at a loss dealing with football...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Quality of Excellence | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...mano. López Mateos married her in 1940. Señora López Mateos' grandfather was British, and she is ardently Anglophile and pro-U.S., but her affection for the U.S. never rubbed off on her husband. He compounds the Mexican's moody distrust of the Colossus of the North with an unshakable belief that the U.S. is run by and for a profit-hungry band of bankers. Told once that only 5% of all U.S. citizens could be called truly rich, he replied: "Aha! But what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The Paycheck Revolution | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...Dawn's Early Light. On the even days, when the Reds do not shell the island (to prove that they can control its destiny at will even if they cannot seize it), supplies pour into the beaches from Formosa. Farmers swarm into the fields. But having learned to distrust the promises of Peking, they pack two days' work into the five morning hours, furiously irri gating, hoeing the weeds, planting winter crops. Some, like wizened Tun Men-tse, venture out before dawn even on the odd days, crouching in the dark to get in a couple of hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: QUEMOY: The Odd Days | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

South Korea. "How can you expect foreign investment when your own businessmen distrust your own currency, and your own banks charge your businessman interest of 4% a month on loans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Help Yourself | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

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