Word: increments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...today. Throughout his political career, Pinchot's strongest ally was Joe Grundy, owner of a Bristol, Pa., textile plant, who founded the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association. Grundy was a new kind of political boss. To Cameron and Quay the money to be made in politics was an incidental increment of political power; to Penrose money was just a means to political ends. But Grundy & friends were primarily businessmen, interested in politics as an aid to business. To this day the Grundy "machine" is not a normal political organization with normal responses. It is the super-lobby of a pressure...
...Capital Increment. In Baltimore, Salvatore Volpe explained to cops who kept him from jumping off a high bridge: "I am making too much money and don't know what to do with...
MACARTHUR: "I do not believe that it would be within the capacity of the Soviet to mass any great additional increment of force to launch any predatory attack from the Asiatic continent ... All of the sustenance that goes in in such major quantity to support armed forces must pass over that railway line which runs from European Russia across Siberia. That line is strained to the very utmost now to maintain on a normal peace basis the forces which the Soviet maintains in Siberia ... I believe that the dispositions of the Soviet forces are largely defensive . . . The weakness...