Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...AMERICANS: "Nothing could well be more disastrous than that America should take sides ... in the British general election." FOR BRITONS: "The British public should try to be less touchy about what is said in America. The real test is what is done, and by that test the United States Government has leant over backwards to avoid anything that could be construed as interference...
...lead his country's new life until a new generation, not tainted by Hitler, can rise to power. Adenauer has limitations, but he can at least be counted upon to seek better relations between Germany and the West. He will try to continue the free enterprise that has done so much to speed German recovery. He is a shrewd and able coalitionist at a time when a coalition government (without Communists) must succeed...
Purity & Flavor. The master had turned his palace into a picture factory, where his students did most of the work. Rubens would supply them with sketches, add a few finishing touches when the paintings were done, and sign them with a flourish. He soon found that young Van Dyck's work needed no finishing touches. Experts have since despaired of telling some of their portraits apart. The student's are as bold and right as the master's own, with the same purity and flavor, and only a little less body-for with all his talents...
Republic Steel's Charles M. White, steelworkers have done all right for themselves in the last decade. "Their average hourly earnings [at Republic] have increased -97% [v.] a rise of approximately 70% in the cost of living...
...made no recommendations on what should be done about the trend to bigness. But Committee Chairman Celler thought that the antitrust statutes should be tightened up. His subcommittee will take testimony from Government bureaus, labor leaders and industrialists for the remainder of the year, and will probably have a fresh batch of antitrust legislation ready for Congress next January...