Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Conant also declared that a "dynamic . . . free competitive society which holds promise for the future to large numbers of people" is a strong factor in persuading the U.S.S.R. that it cannot win over the rest of the world to its way of life...
Before Hollinger can move a ton of ore, it must build a railroad to the St. Lawrence at Seven Islands, where it is ice-free about ten months out of the year. The survey for the 360-mile rail line ($100 million to build and equip) will be finished next year. The line will take three years to complete. Hollinger already has an eye on Eaton Canyon's 350-ft, waterfall, with its 500,000 h.p. potential, for a power source. Production in Ungava is probably five years away, and some $200 million will be poured into it before...
That doctrine, wrote Dawson, "did not catch on very well. It ran smack up against a more powerful force-the right of the public to the free flow of news." Since then, twelve states have held "that a mari is entitled to redress for the unauthorized appropriation of his name or picture for trade purposes. But . . . the publication of news is not a trade purpose. No one can stop the use of his name or photograph if they are matters of public interest, no matter how much it hurts...
...weathered slumps (by upping volume and cutting prices) and other storms, including the divorce of her first husband. When she was kidnaped in 1931, Nellie refused to pay a $75,000 ransom. She was released, ransom-free, soon married her lawyer, Missouri's aged (73) ex-U.S. Senator James A. Reed (who died eleven years later...
...ambitious and not particularly likable or conspicuously able . . ." Washington's favorite disciplinarian was the cat-o'-nine-tails: 25 lashes for profanity, 100 for drunkenness. His letters to superiors were often fawning, too prone to dwell on his own belief that he was "open and honest and free from guile...