Word: ever
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Time for Lunch. Last week Dr. Sills was in practice in Plains with his wife-nurse-receptionist-bookkeeper. They were as busy as they could ever want to be. Go-getting Jimmy Carter had been equally busy since April, getting set for them. With Lions Club support, he formed the Plains Development Corp., raised $6,000, bought a site opposite the railroad station and adjoining the drugstore. Town labor cleared it. Carter drew plans to Dr. Sills's sketched outlines. Result: a 30-ft.-by-30-ft. concrete-block building, ready for early August occupancy, with offices...
...Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P-L*A*N, by Leo Rosten. The famed immigrant warrior against the English language is back with the same old tsplit infinitifs and dobble nagetifs, and he is just as funny as ever...
Agriculture experts hope that a rapid price drop will discourage production. The U.S. corn farmer, already unhappy about this year's low prices, has an answer to that: rising productivity that enables him to grow ever bigger crops for ever bigger total subsidies, no matter what the price...
...ever-cautious ICC warned railroaders that the N. & W.-Virginian decision, which did not involve any opposition from competitors or stockholders, is not a green light for mergers as a way out of financial problems. But it is at least a yellow caution light. Next on ICC's docket is the proposed merger between the Erie and the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, whose combined loss in 1959's first half is more than $2,000,000. A clear track for this second major combination would revive industrywide merger talks (e.g., between the Pennsylvania and the New York Central...
Schlieker is often accused of shady dealing, but no one has ever made a charge stick. Though the shipyard gets much of his time, more than half of schlieker's profits still come from trading, specially in steel. When questioned about he future, he says only: "I have no imperialistic ambitions." But as a British intelligence report once noted: "He is a ruthless opportunist, vain, ambitious, and egotistical . . . who seems destined for leading role in Ruhr industry, whatever orm of organization it adopts in the future...