Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tribute. BBC-TV featured the girls on its major news program, and two London ad agencies bought full pages in the Times of London to hail their spirit. London's Financial Times praised the plan as a way to remedy Britain's economic weakness. A printing firm in Lincolnshire began turning out 100,000 "I'm Backing Britain" badges. More astonishing, the 740 other employees at the girls' company, which produces ventilation equipment, agreed to put in a half-hour of unpaid overtime each day. In return, the company immediately cut prices on its products...
...dressed in the firm's uniform and signed for the cash with a signature that also appeared on the master list the trust company uses to check the authenticity of its money carriers...
...bank president, Thaddeus Beal, declined to identify the authentic armored car service or the firm...
...North have long since outlived whatever usefulness they might have had in bolstering the morale of the Saigon regime. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara has testified of their dubious military value. The Administration should have halted the air attacks long ago; in the wake of Hanoi's apparently firm offer of a quid pro quo, it is unconscionable that they continue...
...While no firm agenda has been set for the meeting, Daniels said that the list of speakers will include, in addition to Ferber and Bowles, Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at M.I.T.; Howard Zinn, professor of government at Boston University, and Neil Robinson, a leader of the Boston Draft Resistance Group...