Word: idea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blooming mill to help out Yugoslavia's steel industry. The next would probably be a World Bank loan. Johnson and his military advisers, who see no point in helping a potential enemy and believe that a Communist is a Communist, had fought for months against the idea. But Secretary of State Dean Acheson argued that doing Dictator Tito a few favors was one way to keep Belgrade and Moscow at arm's length...
Besides, said Acheson, after he had gotten Harry Truman's backing for the project, the mill could not possibly be delivered before another year; by that time the U.S. would have a better idea just how lasting was Tito's falling out with the Kremlin. On that basis, Johnson reluctantly agreed...
...which is skittery and as subject to sudden sinking spells as any industry that lives to satisfy woman's whim. Its 11,000 employers are mostly small businessmen who must move rapidly and warily in a trade that is bitterly competitive, determinedly rapacious. A man with a design idea and a batch of orders can have a Cadillac and an establishment on Riverside Drive in six months. Then, like a gust of wind in a wheat field, women's minds change and a hundred employers find themselves back at the cutting table...
Early this year, Lohman considered selling out and going back to Texas. But nothing came of the idea. Last week, caudillo-like, he was holding court at Red Wells-now promising a young Indian more corn for his squaw, now buying 30 cattle from a small rancher so that the man could pay for his wedding. "I think my place is right here in the Chaco," he said. "That's where I belong...
...Manhattan, Henry Modell pushed his idea for an "AntiDepression Week." Modell, head of a chain of sporting-goods stores, has persuaded 2,200 retailers across the country to cut their prices an extra 10% from...