Word: free
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Schmoe told you that somebody positively isn't an anti-semite because this somebody just said that "some of his best friends are Jews," you would probably think Joe was kidding. That happened to me last winter, only it wasn't Joe Schmoe, it was the president of the Free Enterprise Society, and he wasn't kidding. In other words, he meant it. That is to say, the fact that someone pronounced this anti-semite cliche of cliches was proof positive, to the President, that the chap was not an anti-semite. Or, to put it differently, the President...
Each applicant fills out a detailed form explaining his special talents, his free hours, his employment preferences, and sundry other details. Then Holt calls upon his store of contacts to find a hob that will fit the applicant's particular idiosyncrasies, or if none is forthcoming, files the application away until a suitable job shows...
...haste to protect farmers from this latest evil of free competition, the U.S. planned a quick conference with Canada. It hoped to restrict shipments of Canadian potatoes-and hoped no one would ask how this fitted loud U.S. talk of freer world trade...
...thought so was the Equitable Life Assurance Society's Thomas I. Parkinson. Said Parkinson: "Neither banks nor life-insurance companies have any right to expect a guaranteed buyer." Parkinson thought that FRB should let the bonds find their own level in a free market. His argument was that lower bond prices meant higher yields, and higher yields on Treasuries would in turn push up the commercial interest rate. Making credit more expensive, thought Parkinson, would help nip inflation...
Clift recently finished his third picture, William Wyler's The Heiress. Now he is committed to Liberty Films, a Paramount subsidiary, for three more (which must be directed by Wyler, Frank Capra or George Stevens). Meanwhile, he is free to accept offers from Broadway, where he is also in great demand. One offer is for Lillian Hellman's forthcoming dramatization of the best-selling The Naked and the Dead. Clift doesn't know whether he'll do it : he hasn't seen the script...