Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration will try to provide some of that assurance. Senate Democratic Leader Scott W. Lucas said the Senate would take up a bill to empower the Export-Import Bank to guarantee foreign investments against 1) inability to convert profits into dollars, and 2) confiscation by foreign governments. Prospects were good for Senate approval...
...books for many years the Sherman antitrust law. The Du Pont Company is ... heartily in favor of that law . . . Unfortunately . . . the ideology of enforcement is left to the shifting winds of political thought . . . Business frequently finds itself attacked for acts done many years ago in all good faith and with the best legal advice available...
...inbred for generations. This offspring inherits all the favorable characteristics of his purebred ancestors as well as a mysterious extra something called "hybrid vigor": a phenomenal capacity for growth and performance. Actually, the breeder may run through hundreds of combinations before he hits a "nick"-trade slang for a good hybrid. Wallace's nick didn't come until 1942, after six years of tedious experimentations. In one year, he had to throw out 34,000 chicks from a carefully bred flock of 36,000 birds. Many of the rejects were weird freaks spawned by the intensive inbreeding: blind...
...well near Inglewood, Calif. Even those who had made strikes would not necessarily turn them into profits; they still had the problem of operating the well and marketing the oil. As one California oilman put it: "I can give you an oil well which is actually producing a good amount of oil, and bet you'll go broke if you don't know what you're doing. The stars . . . don't know enough about the business...
...daring to suggest that some Negroes may be villains-and some white Southerners decent men-Pinky will annoy those who insist on their propaganda with easy good & evil labels. Anyone who is determined to look for the cliches of antidiscrimination propaganda might charge that the sour-sweet old plantation owner (Ethel Barrymore) is a "symbol" of white paternalism and the Ethel Waters role a "symbol" of Aunt Jemimaism. But Pinky is the most skillful type of propaganda: in avoiding crude and conventional labeling, it leaves a strong impression that racial discrimination is not only unreasonable but evil...