Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Industrialists soundly fear that more efficient competitors in other countries would put them out of business if trade barriers were lifted. Economists are afraid that the dislocations necessary to attain the long-range objective of integration would interfere with Western Europe's urgent short-range objective of earning more...
As he flew homeward this week, Americans were still far from sure what the truth was that Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru stood for; but they sensed in him, if not rare truth, a rare heart.
Said one worker about his boss: "He knows his job and so do we-that's what matters . . . Sure, I believe the world is moving irresistibly toward socialism." Then he added: "But if all the factories were like this, maybe it wouldn't."
What shocked Britons most was a statement from the accountants-Cooper Brothers & Co.-that they were "unable to report that in our opinion proper books of accounts have been kept by the corporation." But Sir Leslie Arthur ("Dick") Plummer, the corporation's chairman and Labor's vice president...
But it looked as though Labor would stick stubbornly to the scheme. At his country house in Essex, where he farms and bird-watches, Plummer was still hopeful of getting the scheme straightened out. Said he: "We'd be pretty damn fools if we had to present another financial...