Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overriding hurt from a change in U.S. China policy would be to the idea of a free Asia. Since 1950 the U.S. has delivered some $7 billion in aid to its key Asian allies. The U.S. has had more in mind than providing its allies with a shield against Red Communist expansion. The ultimate aim: to prove that, given security and political stability, a non-Communist Asia can simultaneously solve its economic problems and work toward improvement and independence of the individual-and thus give the lie to the Communist myth that the only answer to Asian poverty is totalitarianism...
When asked how much it would hurt the U.S. to stop testing large bombs, Dr. Libby says: "In each test we have learned something." Asked whether he would favor stopping the tests if the Russians did too, he says: "All we ask is inspection," i.e., to make sure the Russians keep their promises. An authority with access to Libby's sources of information believes that the Russians would lose more by stopping tests than the U.S. would, which may explain why the Russians will not agree to suspension of tests, with inspection...
...What hurt more was the fact that the drop in overall sales would virtually all come out of General Motors' share of the market. Last week at G.M.'s annual meeting, a stockholder asked who was responsible for G.M.'s poor "static styling" this year. Answered President Curtice: "The present management...
IMPORT QUOTAS are being put on woolens and worsteds by President Eisenhower, will help struggling U S. textile industry somewhat but hurt British exporters. Imports above 14 million Ibs. a year will be taxed at 30? to 37½? a Ib. plus 45% ad valorem, almost double the usual tariff. Britain alone sends about 10 million Ibs. a year worth $35 million...
...1930s, pull-out sofa beds cut into Murphy's markets. World War II housing regulations hurt them more by classifying the beds as furniture instead of structural built-ins, cutting them out of mortgage packages. Progress and Government rules folded Murphy bed sales. To recoup, Murphy concentrated on selling "efficiency" kitchens for small apartments. Last year his Murphy Door Bed Co. sold only 10,000 letdown beds, making most of its $1,000,000 sales from kitchen units. Last week, as the company planned a comeback in house-trailer Murphy beds, Inventor Murphy died at 81 in Belle Vista...