Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took care of ourselves and our older people. Today, through the changes in our industrial system, we as a people have become dependent for old-age security more and more upon pensions, insurance policies, savings bonds and savings accounts. These are the people that are particularly hurt by depreciation of the dollar...
Some Startling Lessons. "People who get a dollar one year and spend it that or the next year are not as much hurt, even if there develops a sort of creeping inflation, or cheapening of the dollar. But the man who makes a living today and puts away his savings to be used 40 years from now can receive some startling lessons over that 40-year period...
...July 6, 1952, Oregon's' quick-minded, erratic Republican Senator Wayne Morse boarded the Chesapeake & Ohio's Capitol Limited, rode to Chicago to take his place among Republican dignitaries at the national nominating convention. Six days later, his feelings hurt because nobody at the convention had paid him much attention, he rode back to Washingtonton the same train, no longer a Republican. In October he made it official, declared himself an "Independent." Two years later, the Independent Party having picked up no followers, Morse declared himself a Democrat, was re-elected to the Senate...
...lingered ominously in the background. Leonard got threatening phone calls ("It'll be with a pipe wrapped in a paper sack. You'll never know what hit you"). He testified that Carbo called too. said "something to the effect that 'You're going to get hurt. We're going to make an example of you.' " After the hearing, police were assigned to guard Leonard whenever he left home...
...over last year. To add more zip to sales, Chrysler's President Lester Lum Colbert made some drastic dealer shifts-and readied a new car. The company has known for some time that its dual system of De Soto-Plymouth and Dodge-Plymouth dealerships, has seriously hurt Plymouth sales, since the dealers were inclined to push the higher-priced cars on which they made more money. To correct this, the De Soto and Plymouth divisions were merged, with Plymouth to be top dog. Chrysler last week asked the Dodge-Plymouth dealers to give up their Plymouth franchises, concentrate...