Word: firm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West, said Herter, would go into the foreign ministers' meeting with a "united position," and the heart of that position is that the West will "stand firm at Geneva in upholding our rights and responsibilities in Berlin...
...systematically spread. Recently, nearly 1,000,000 individual Germans earning under $3,800 a year signed up for shares in a public sale of the state-owned Preussag mining and oil company. The government expects to sell more "People's Shares'" in a half dozen other major firms it owns, including Volkswagen. In private industry, more than 30% of the employees of the big DEMAG engineering firm own stock in their company...
Only real winner: Dominican Republican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, who has a firm precedent for appealing to the OAS if and when Cuban rebels try to help overthrow...
...with 322,900 shares of Crane stock owned by Auto-Lite. They also went to Mrs. Emily Crane Chadbourne, 89, only living daughter of Crane's founder, explained that Evans' chief argument with Crane President Neele E. Stearns was over Stearns's slowness in expanding the firm's inadequate network of independent wholesalers. Proof of Evans' complaint was Crane's first-quarter earnings (23? per share v. 21? last year), which did not show the strong comeback from the recession of Crane's chief competitors. Mrs. Chadbourne decided to back Evans and Landa...
...fact is that that best of fathers and husbands, John Wood, has been stealing the firm's money to speculate on the Chicago stock exchange. What interests Author Suckow is how the old Iowans she knew so well square the dreadful event with conscience, with character based on Biblical supports, with the responses of common humanity. Some, including old friends, are uncompromisingly unforgiving. Others, knowing that John Wood broke the code in the hope of easing life for his sick wife, want to be charitable. But for young Philip, life seems smashed, and his agony is the greater because...