Word: freer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money to pour into new exploration. Importers (i.e.. Gulf Oil Corp., Shell Oil, Standard Oil of N.J.) counter that high imports are necessary to keep down prices by filling the gap between U.S. production and consumption, and that the import restrictions are in conflict with U.S. aims for freer world trade...
...that all available production both in the U.S. and abroad will be needed. For the short run, restricting imports would not only place a heavy burden on diminishing U.S. oil reserves; it would also undo much of the good will the U.S. has built up in its efforts toward freer trade...
...acceptance of liberalism, Eisenhower has not led at all in the last four years. The President of the United States must be a three-in-one man: a political leader, a national leader, and a world leader. Eisenhower has been respected, to be sure; and he has probably been freer from political and foreign criticism than any other President in recent times. But as for leading--either his party, or the nation, or the world--he has failed. The most damaging criticism that we are forced to level against President Eisenhower is that he has failed to utilize his great...
...impose the cooperative system on the machinery of their trade-their boats, their carefully tended nets and their daily catches-the fishermen could tolerate no more. In September a fleet of 200 fishing junks, manned by some 1,600 refugee fisherfolk, set out from Kwangtung to find a freer life in the waters around Hong Kong...
...first half, released last week. Employment was at a peak; the demand for nondurable goods showed "little or no slackening"; the downslide in orders for durables "appears to have been arrested." Consumer purchasing, one of the economy's biggest props, had been helped by freer credit...