Word: freehandedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A Bonus for Votes. Several political inventions have helped spawn Uruguay's many factions. The most wondrous is the "double simultaneous ballot," which lets the voter pick the party he wants to win the major offices and at the same time choose candidates to fill these offices from the...
Since World War II, Chairman Robert E. Wood of Sears, Roebuck & Co., No. i mail-order house, has gone in for freehanded expansion, spent around $300 million to increase its retail outlets from 610 to 694 and another $26 million to open 24 stores in Latin America. On the other...
Last week politicians of the Republican People's Party, which opposes Bayar's Democratic Party, denounced Lawyer Ball as "a tool of the oil interests," and criticized his draft as too freehanded with Turkey's oil. The investment law has also been a target for such political...
A few days before the Allied breakout from Normandy in World War II, a Vichy government train was chugging through central France. Its freight: ten billion French francs (then worth $200 million) for the Bank of France in Limoges. At a tank stop the train was boarded by a gang...
"Killing sparrows," Georgia's Senator Walter George called it scornfully. But Illinois' Paul Douglas and Michigan's Homer Ferguson doggedly went on setting their small snares for the bureaucratic idler and the freehanded spender. In the Senate last week, first one and then the other bobbed up...