Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which allow even lower pay. Federal-tax amortization benefits, he says, have been "disproportionately granted to Southern plants." Federally regulated shipping rates "discriminate unduly" against New England (although he admits that New England is badly located to exploit the big new markets of the Southeast and Southwest). And worst evil of all, in Kennedy's book, "one of the most obviously unfair inducements offered to those [industries], considering migration, is the tax-free plant built by a southern community with the proceeds of federally-tax-exempt municipal bonds...
...patent medicine with the ultimate tribute: "It cures you like Buddha." Hong Kong itself, for more than 100 years the warehouse of the Far East, was also taking a cure. Amid cries of street hawkers and the deafening uproar from a string of 100,000 firecrackers to drive off evil spirits. Hong Kong's Governor Sir Alexander Grantham stepped up to a huge, towered gate decorated with neon lights, elaborate flowers and the Union Jack. Snipping a ribbon, he opened a powerful testimonial to the cure's success: the colony's eleventh annual exhibition of local manufactures...
Back-Alley Boom. The profusion of low-priced local goods displayed in the multicolored stalls was the most hopeful answer yet to Hong Kong's evil spirit-Red China, which is only a few miles away. The United Nations' embargo on trade with China has piled up goods in Hong Kong traders' godowns for want of customers. Exports since 1951 have fallen from 4.4 billion Hong Kong dollars (5.85 to the U.S. dollar) to 2.7 billion, well under the colony's 3.9 billion in imports, chiefly food. Thus the biggest hope for Hong Kong...
...would like to add a few remarks to your objective report on the Portuguese elections [Nov. 16]. Salazar is not an admirable man. His success lies in a simple method: he is benevolent to his big boys in their big business (a necessary evil, he thinks), uses much of the national revenue in the maintenance of the elements of the system's machinery-the army, the state police, censorship, the Catholic Church, the corporative agencies, the União National (Government's Party) and the propaganda bureaus. With a few hundred thousand collaborationists, dependent on the regime...
...Christianity must transcent Western civilization," he said, as well as the "evil of denominationalism that discredits Christianity in Asian eyes...