Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would have ordered the confiscation of all holdings and ill-gotten gains of those who had committed frauds during the previous regimes...and to implement this, special courts with full powers would gain access to all records...to investigate concealed funds of illegal origin, and to request that foreign governments extradite persons and attach holdings (illegally removed from Cuba...
Smithies approaches the issue of the settlement in terms of its effect on the inflationary wage-price spiral. The toughened industry stand this year, he suggests, is due to their fear that the "pattern of periodic wage increases" will price them out of both the domestic and foreign markets. It is "terribly important to stop the wage-price spiral at this juncture," he said, by settling without a price increase. Chamberlin agreed that "the real issue of inflation is the reaction on other wages. Whether the price of steel will have to go up is "only a small part...
Beyond Survival, by Max Ways. A challenging study of what is wrong with U.S. foreign policy, notably, the lack of a clear American public philosophy...
...Welcome Back." What will the new compacts do to those gnatty foreign bugs, which started the rush to smallness? "We never worry about competition," says Britain's Lord Rootes, whose Rootes Motors Ltd. makes Hillman, Singer, Sunbeam. "We welcome our American competitors back after the years in which they designed themselves out of the market...
...Foreign makers view Detroit's shift as a return to normal size rather than a direct challenge to their cars. They figure that the new U.S. compacts-which run about 15 ft. long and start at about $1,800 list-will bite into the sales of regular U.S. cars, but are neither small enough nor economical enough to cut the sales of the fastest-selling smaller imports, which run about 10 ft. to 13 ft. and deliver in the $1,600 range. Foreign makers expect to benefit from Detroit's new emphasis on smallness; they hope to increase...