Word: easiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corporate infant-formed last year by the merger of oldtimers Pacific Coast Borax Co. and U.S. Potash Co. But it has close to a natural monopoly, holds 63% of the free world's deposits, including the only big deposit of sodium borate ore (at Boron), the cheapest and easiest type of the mineral to mine and process. The company's ancestry is the story of borax mining in the U.S. The discovery of borax in a California hot spring in 1856 set off feverish prospecting and mining that eventually made the U.S. the world's leading borax...
Between the Lines. With this report, Heath got himself way out on a limb which critical convention colleagues were anxious to saw off. Snapped Cleveland's Dr. Douglas D. Bond: "No group of psychiatrists need be told that the easiest people to deceive are ourselves." In this atmosphere. Heath was careful not to disclose anything about the beef extract's effects, if any. on the mental symptoms of human patients. One trouble, he conceded, was that his extracts did not always turn out the same, might have varying potency, or none. But something could be 'read between...
...easiest ways to encourage investment abroad would be to ease the tax burden of overseas firms, which often are hit by double taxes. But such a reduction has been largely blocked by businessmen themselves. U.S. companies deriving 95% of their income from foreign nations in the Western Hemisphere have to pay only 38% corporate tax v. 52% paid on profits made in the rest of the world. The Administration has been trying to have the lower rate extended to all U.S. firms doing business abroad. But shortsighted U.S. firms have disagreed so strongly over who should qualify that little progress...
...much of an amateur at the illustrated lecture business. His subject, "My Story of the Commonwealth Tour," sounded a bit dull, and his audience-2,000 teen-agers imported by the Ministry of Education's Imperial Institute from schools in London and the Home Counties-was not the easiest kind to handle. Nevertheless, from the minute His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, opened his mouth, he had his captive audience captivated...
...fellow-model persuades her to accompany her on a little "trip." She is seduced by a high-ranking Fascist official who loves her but is married. Overcome, with guilt, she shortly finds out that her supposed fiance is likewise married and in mixed guilt and rage, takes the easiest course. At length our fair heroine falls in love with a customer, a well-educated anti-Fascist and she is to bear him a child. This affair ends in bleak and bloody despair. She wanders off into the darkness, saying that she will devote her life to her child, a sort...