Word: intendment
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...government of President Jorge Alessandri counts heavily on foreign aid, does not intend to levy emergency taxes on foreign companies, Chilean corporations or the Chilean rich. And foreign aid is pouring in. West Germany has offered to rebuild Valdivia; Argentina will aid Chiloé Island; Sweden will help Puerto Saavedra. The U.S. has given most of all. The Export-Import Bank of Washington has lent $10,770,000. Private citizens have donated $5,000,000, and President Eisenhower last week approved a $20 million gift as the "first step" of a broad aid program to Chile's homeless...
Most U.S. merchants could detect no concerted shunning of Japanese goods by their customers. Big U.S. companies that import from Japan-such as Sears, Roebuck, Woolworth, Montgomery Ward-all insist that they intend to continue importing Japanese goods. Said a top executive of Boston's William Filene's Sons: "From the corporate point of view, to stop selling Japanese goods would be like closing school because a couple of kids had broken some windows...
...Khrushchev really intend to give a man who once described himself as "a gunner, that's all" the authority to make the decision that could touch off nuclear war? The consensus of the West: Nikita was trading on U.S. cancellation of the U-2 flights to run a bluff on which he reckoned he would never have to put up or shut...
...Hillary announced last week that she and a female friend will take a mountain stroll on their own this February, trek some 170 miles from Katmandu to Thyangboche over some rugged territory. Discussing her project as casually as if it were a Girl Scout hike, Louise Hillary said: "We intend to climb a ridge or two and have a look at the view...
...This Time . . ." Most of all, Patter son plans for his return bout with Jo hansson. He does not intend to change his "peekaboo" style, with hands carried high in front of his face, which has been criti cized on the ground that it inhibits his punching power. Says he: "You'd be sur prised at the number of times I've felt their gloves hit my gloves and how grate ful I was that my gloves were there...