Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign industrialist who brings his know-how to one of the underdeveloped western counties-Clare, Galway, Mayo, Roscommon, Donegal, Kerry, Sligo or Leitrim-the Irish government will buy a site, build a plant for him, train his workers and pay half the cost of plant equipment. Elsewhere, Ireland will grant two-thirds of the cost of the plant up to $140,000. In addition, foreign enterprises will be freed from income taxes on export profits for at least five years, excused from 67% of local property taxes for at least seven years. Dublin will guarantee that U.S. companies can send...
Into Brundage's post went his deputy, Minnesota-born Maurice Hubert Stans, 50, onetime executive partner in the Chicago accounting firm of Alexander Grant & Co., who cheerfully took an 80% salary cut to go to work in Washington at $17,500 a year, was Post Office Department financial troubleshooter before he signed up with the Budget Bureau last September. The big job ahead for Maurice Stans: preparing for the budget year beginning July 1959 without knowing whether he can count on boom or bust...
INDOCHINA. While supporting France's military effort against the Communist imperialism in Southeast Asia, the U.S. gently but steadily pressured the French toward the grant of full independence that South Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia finally got-almost too late...
...prison-made blue suit, paroled Nathan Leopold Jr., 53, took the arm of Lawyer Elmer Gertz, pushed his way to five microphones set up on a nearby road, and over shouts and shutter clicks read a statement to 100-odd newsmen and photographers: "I beg, I beseech you ... to grant me a gift almost as precious as freedom itself-a gift without which freedom ceases to have much value-the gift of privacy. Give me a chance-a fair chance-to start life anew." Then he answered a few questions about his $10-a-month lab technician...
...steelmen refuse to cut prices, not only because they say it would not improve business, but also because they face an automatic 7% wage increase next July 1; Detroit refuses to lower auto prices largely because it must renegotiate auto contracts this summer, expects that it will have to grant the U.A.W. a boost...