Word: either
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went there to examine postwar business conditions and to talk to exporters about advertising in TIME Inc.'s overseas editions. He found, to everyone's astonishment, that in all the decades of trading between Britain and the U.S., no real effort had been made by either country to discover the requirements and attitudes of American retail stores toward British goods. In other words, the British consumer goods industry had never really met the American market face to face...
...wobbly French press is no longer either powerful or corrupt. No foreign power can plant a campaign, for a price, in a French paper-except, of course, in L'Humanite, which sometimes reads as if it were edited in the Kremlin. Nor can government ministers phone editors, as they did before the war, and tell them what to print and what to kill...
Training by actual flight is expensive (over $500 an hour for a four-engine airliner), and not too satisfactory, either (as one airline spokesman put it delicately: "We hesitate to institute disaster conditions in a real, $1,500,000 airplane...
...Wolverhampton, England, Dr. J. H. Sheldon, director of medicine in the Royal Hospital, made a survey of 477 old people in the community, reported that old men are either in very bad health or very good health for their age, and fairly constant about it, while aging women showed a steady reduction in general health...
...year-old plea, ICC found all sorts of reasons for saying no. For one thing, any closer alliance between the C. & O. and Central would lessen the "extensive competition" between them, would thus violate the antitrust and interstate commerce laws. For another, "the applicants have not shown that either public or private interests will not be adversely affected." ICC reckoned that half a dozen other railroads-and therefore the public -would have been harmed. Example: Frank D. Beale, president of the Virginian Railway Co., wailed that a C. & O.-Central link would just about choke off his road...