Word: fightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final months, under ex-Foreign News Editor Sydney Gruson, the Times had put up quite a fight. During its last year, circulation rose by 15% to 47,000; advertising linage jumped 20%, running ahead of the Trib by 2.7 million to 1.8 million lines. Trouble was, the Trib-Post, with a circulation of 60,000, was a better paper, with a much keener sense of what the overseas American wanted to read. The Times, despite all its effort to add fresh European shopping and travel features, remained essentially a thin version of the New York edition...
...want to go through that again." Guy E. Noyes, senior vice president of Manhattan's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., blames much of the demand on businessmen's desire to "beat the central bank" by borrowing before the Reserve Board again tightens up on credit to fight inflation...
...president for only 16 months but has already become embroiled in a battle for a 20% interest in the Railway Express Agency, which would dovetail with Greyhound's growing parcel-carrying business. Bitterly opposed to any butting in by the busmen, truckers and the railroaders have carried the fight to the Supreme Court...
American chemical and steel producers, however, angrily denounced the pact. The chemical men promised a fight to prevent Congress from repealing the American Selling Price law-even though the U.S. exports chemicals worth three times its imports. The steelmakers' ire centers on the Kennedy Round's comparative failure to persuade other countries to end nontariff trade barriers, such as quotas, border taxes and import licensing. "We couldn't ship any steel into Japan if we gave it away," complains Chairman Edward J. Hanley of Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. "It's embargoed." Similar protectionist obstacles cover hundreds...
...does not want to hide from facts. Yet each successive volume uncovers new variations on the theme of human bestiality. This fictionalized account is unusual in that it begins with the agonized if rather naive question of why the Jewish victims of the Nazis did not try to fight against their doom. It ends up-almost, it sometimes seems, against the author's intent-as an account of triumph amidst total despair...