Word: encroacher
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...problem, you see, is basically his problem, not ours. We cannot solve it for him. We can contribute only by a long-term policy of firmness, patience and understanding, designed to keep the Russians confronted with superior strength at every juncture where they might otherwise be inclined to encroach upon the vital interests of a stable and peaceful world; but we should do this in so friendly and unprovocative a manner that its basic purposes will not be subject to misinterpretation...
...random sample of 88 out of the first 300 plants to set up production-drive committees. Despite management's early fears (and the survey was built up exclusively from management reports), 91% of those with concrete opinions reported that labor had not used the drive to encroach on management; 78% said labor had used them "in a sincere effort to increase production"; 62% said they had received more worthwhile production suggestions than before; 67% that the plan justified the time and effort it took to operate...
...articles in this issue of FORTUNE is an essay on price fixing by Marriner S. Eccles. Says Eccles: "Instead of discouraging savings we need now to encourage them. Instead of encouraging consumer expenditures, we need to apply curbs on private spending whenever it threatens to encroach on defense needs or to distort prices. Instead of stimulating consumption by deficit financing, we need so far as we can to reduce the deficit and to approach a balanced budget. . . . Instead of a tax structure designed to encourage consumption, we need one that will recapture for the Government a large part...
...increasing pressure from U. S. coal consumers. John Lewis hoped the operators would crack to the point of giving him a closed shop,* or a contract clause permitting him to strike whenever A. F. of L.'s unions, particularly the small Progressive Miners of America, may try to encroach on U. M. W. preserves. Many an operator was willing to surrender by last week, but as a group they still hung together for renewal of the old contract, including a clause which makes U. M. W. pay penalties of $1-$2 per day per man during any strike called...
...American Hernando de Soto Exposition at Tampa he said, for the benefit of national neighbors to the south: "We purpose to heed the ancient Scriptural admonition not to move our neighbor's landmarks, not to encroach on his metes and bounds...