Word: ebbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the pages of Vestnik. After accepting an invitation to The Netherlands recently. Physicist Landau asked if he might bring along a friend. The friend, though billed as a fellow scientist, seemed to Landau's hosts to be more of a political chaperon. Freedom, it seems, can still ebb and flow like the tide, and latterly it seems to be ebbing again. Reported Peter Scheivert, professor of Slavic history at the University of Cologne after his latest visit to Moscow: "Six months ago my Russian university friends used to come to my hotel to chat. This time...
Symes gave some of the answers. Not only did the Pennsy lose $14.9 million in the first quarter, but "business continues at a very low ebb. presently running about 22% behind a year ago." In a crash drive to save money, the line cut its work force by a fifth in the past year, is doing practically no heavy maintenance work. Its cash is "exceedingly low," and its prospects for a profit in 1958 "extremely doubtful." The Pennsy has skipped its dividends for the first two quarters this year. When a stockholder asked if the Pennsy would pay any dividend...
...implications that play no part in U.S. domestic affairs. Snapped New Jersey Republican Clifford Case: "If it is impossible for the people of the U.S. to understand the reason for loans at lower interest rates to foreign countries . . . then indeed the security of the U.S. is at a low ebb...
...jobholders were in the same wait-and-see mood last week as the Dallas hardware dealer's friend. With relatives and neighbors out of work, and reports of new layoffs on the front pages, confidence in the economy's health was still ebbing, and the ebb brought an increasing reluctance to buy and invest...
Self-Centered. In Canberra, Australia, the Customs and Excise Department, censor on all printed matter brought into the country, banned its own staff magazine when it had the cheek to run an article declaring that the agency was at its "lowest ebb...