Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into the ballroom of Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford Hotel at $100 a head. There they heard Stevenson use his gift for bright English to express an exceedingly dim view of the state of the world-especially that part of it affected by the fact that the Republicans now hold power...
Devastating Oaths. Technically, Monty is the Deputy Supreme Allied Commander under U.S. General Alfred M. Gruenther. His job, as Eisenhower once put it, is to "forge the weapon" with which the NATO allies hold off Russia in Europe. In practice, he is far more than SHAPE'S blacksmith. He is its schoolmaster, conscience, physical-education instructor, its gadfly and occasionally its terrible-tempered Mr. Bang...
...ridden exception to Canada's general prosperity. The rise in value of the Canadian dollar removed a competitive advantage just when U.S. manufacturers began putting steam into their Canadian selling drive. Canadian manufacturers, who produced 68% of their nation's fabrics in 1950, will be lucky to hold half the market this year. The result: shutdowns and layoffs in many of Canada's textile mills (normally the nation's biggest employers of factory workers), and short work weeks in the mills that kept going...
...industrious. I have nothing to 'retire' from. My life has been one long vacation." Of some of his compatriots who have fled the U.S. through the years, in search of new artistic freedoms. Frost said: "(I never felt the call to be an expatriate. But I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell...
...General Electric, and has about 100,000 members. More than a third of the workers in plants of International Harvester, which makes Garand rifles and Army trucks, are members of the Communist-bossed Farm Equipment-United Electrical Workers. The Red-dyed Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers Union has a strong hold on U.S. production of defense metals, from copper to uranium. Party-liners are in control of the American Communications Association, bargaining agent for 5,000 Western Union employees in New York, and Communist Harry Bridges' 75,000 International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union could...