Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ecuador would get a bustling administration that would go slow on social reform, drive hard to put the country on a solid business basis. Moreover, Plaza has been around enough (he studied at the University of California, was ambassador to the U.S.) to know something about getting the foreign help that Ecuador desperately needs. If the court decides for Flor-well, Plaza might win anyhow. "If they try to deprive us of victory by such means," threatened a Plaza subaltern, "blood will flow...
...Boito's poetry and his superb dramatic skill. Said Verdi, after completing Otello at 73: "If I were 30 years younger, I should like to begin a new opera tomorrow-on the condition that Boito provided the libretto." Boito did, and the result (with Shakespeare's help) was Falstaff, one of the greatest triumphs of both words & music of them...
...plants owned by Westerners, were now willing to go along with the new setup. The expansion in Big Steel's western fabricating facilities was expected to spur its Geneva plant to produce at capacity (1,300,000 tons a year). Westerners hoped that the added volume would help bring down the price of western steel...
...bomber orders. Orders for 162 more of its huge B50 Superforts will bring its total backlog close to $500 million. Expanding to get out the planes, Boeing had reopened its vast Wichita plant No. 2; and housewives and farmers were going back to their wartime jobs to help modernize B-29s and make B50 parts...
...textile industry," said Freedman, "has continued to up prices and has kept quality down . . . When consumers refuse to buy, because of price, the tendency appears to be to take something out of quality to produce a lower-priced item . . . This is not going to help the textile business . . . business in general, or, for that matter, free enterprise...