Word: downed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oscar's plugs hit the surface with short, sharp slaps. "The big ones, they get nerved up by the noise," he explained, "and maybe that's the best time-when they don't think, and want to get rid of the damned thing, and hit it. If...
In a "Chicago federal court, the most important legal decision affecting U.S. business this year-and perhaps for years to come-was handed down last week by snow-mustached Judge Walter Jacob LaBuy. Framing the terms for the long-awaited divorce of Du Pont from its 23% control of General...
All told, Du Pont estimated that G.M.'s 744,000 stockholders and Du Font's 209,419 stockholders would lose, in taxes and stock values, about $5 billion. Said the court, applauding Du Font's presentation, and needling the Government: "The testimony [offered] by the defendants, that...
Anderson got strong backing from Per Jacobsson, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, who charged that dollar restrictions are now being used as "protectionist devices" to keep down foreign competition. To Anderson's great satisfaction, Jacobsson virtually signed the death warrant for dollar discrimination by promising that the...
Diminishing Returns. What the Soviet Union faces is a period of diminishing returns that other industrial nations have usually experienced after a major growth spurt. Many of the Soviets' methods and machines were pirated straight from the West, and they sparked the spurt; now they are aging, and the...