Word: equality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington the State Department declared itself "most disappointed" and added that "a majority of the countries sought a unanimous agreement on the maintenance of a differential." The British privately replied that though a majority had indeed voted in favor of united action, an equal majority was opposed to the U.S. position of maintaining a stiff differential. Concluded Paris' Le Monde: "Britain has played the part of a battering ram, and her partners are going to take advantage of the breach that has been opened...
...politically as the worst thief that accepts money for payoffs . . . He is a known alcoholic. He's been disgusting. He's an old degenerate. In other words, he's a sadistic degenerate of the worst type ... He has a man underneath him that is on an equal basis with him." While Cohen ranted on about the "man underneath," Wallace broke in three times to ask his name, apparently unaware that he might be pinning down a libelous label. "His name," said Cohen, "is Captain James Hamilton [chief of the department's intelligence squad...
Next day the network offered its "sincere apologies for any personal distress resulting from this telecast," scrapped kinescopes that would have carried the interview to eleven of the 79 stations handling the show, gave Parker and Hamilton an offer-which they scorned-of equal time on Wallace's show. Parker and Hamilton, shrewd cops with good records (whose names are familiar to viewers of Jack Webb's Dragnet), filed complaints of criminal libel against Cohen and his TV hosts both in Los Angeles and Manhattan. Parker announced that he would sue all concerned, including sponsor Philip Morris. Also...
Onetime U.S. Steel Corp. Chairman Benjamin F. Fairless, chairman of the institute, also predicted a rise in steel capacity that may top the 1956 increase of more than 5,000,000 tons. Most steelmen were confident that 1957 will equal or surpass 1956 in production. "I believe we're over the hump," said Armco Steel Corp. President R. L. Gray. "Things look better; incoming orders are picking up; inventories are down to where steel consumers have...
...performance of the auto industry, which is still drawing heavily on its steel inventories. Last week, Henry Ford noted that Ford automobile sales were up 14%, and the company will gross a record $3 billion in the first half. He predicted that "industry new-car sales for 1957 should equal or exceed slightly the 5,800,000 sold in 1956"-well below the 6,500,000 figure originally predicted by the industry, and later dropped to 6,000,000. General Motors' President Harlow S. Curtice was even blunter. Sales in 1957 should match 1956, he said, but the year...