Word: duns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comrades in arms were added the bickering and ambitions of their wives. U Nu's wife refused for months to speak to the wife of U Kyaw Nyein, Minister for National Economy. Kyaw Nyein's wife would have nothing to do with the wife of Thakin Kyaw Dun, Minister for Agriculture. Premier U Nu tried hard to take a Nehrunian position above the fray but was inevitably drawn into what he himself describes as the party's "family quarrels." He was also angry about the '"outrageous" lawlessness in the countryside, and last month called...
Marxist Buddhist. U Nu has also declared that "Marxism and Buddhism are incompatible," but to Burma's surprise the side he chose to join was that of Marxist Thakin Kyaw Dun and his strongly left-wing socialist followers. U Kyaw Nyein emerged as the rival leader, backed by U Ba Swe, Minister of Defense, and Thakin Tha Kin, ex-Home Minister who had been fired by U Nu. Both sides agreed to an equal division of the party's real estate and money, and prepared for a showdown in the August session of Parliament, with the losing side...
...hotbed, streets were quiet, bars deserted. All outgoing-plane space had been taken for a week in advance. The Texas Co.. which runs a refinery near Santiago, chartered a plane to get 44 dependents of U.S. employees away in time. As the army pulled back its outposts, the dun walls of Moncada Barracks, six blocks square in the heart of Santiago, bristled with troops. Only twelve miles across Santiago Bay, a 150-man column of rebels was boldly encamped...
...project arose from three high-level discussions held last year under the auspices of the cathedral and attended by such laymen as White House Economist Gabriel Hauge, Journalists Walter Lippmann and James Reston, Industrialist Paul Hoffman, and such clergymen as Washington's Episcopalian Bishop Angus Dun and Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam. Behind closed doors, they discussed Christian responsibility in economics, international affairs and nuclear energy. Out of their meetings grew the idea that Protestantism should set up a permanent organization in the capital. Selected to head the new project was the Rev. Dr. Fred S. Buschmeyer...
...executives polled by Dun & Bradstreet snorted bullishly over 1958 prospects: 91% expected that their sales would exceed or equal 1957; eight out of ten thought profits would be better or at least as good; only 1% expected to cut production. In Hollywood, Fla. 1,050 conventioneers at the Investment Bankers Association predicted that easier money will bolster the slump in capital investments, that record personal incomes will lift consumer buying to new peaks, that low inventories will be rebuilt and spur manufacturing. To cool down recession talk, the New York Federal Reserve Bank made one of its rare public predictions...