Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...career of one of the most powerful labor leaders in the U.S. Some key items in the committee's indictment: ¶ Hoffa borrowed money-about $90,000, all told-from a variety of union business agents, a truck owner who employed Teamsters, and Teamster officials. He rarely paid interest, signed notes or offered collateral. In most cases there was no evidence that the payments to Hoffa actually were loans. ¶ A Hoffa acquaintance set up Test Fleet Corp., a truck-leasing firm, in the maiden names of Hoffa's wife (Josephine Poszywak) and the wife...
...near Rogers, Ark., the son of a man who was studying for the Methodist ministry, Loy Henderson went to Northwestern University ('15) and Denver University Law School (1917-18), served with the American Red Cross during World War I and the aftermath, came home in 1922 with such interest in foreign problems that he took the stiff foreign service exams. Passed and appointed, he performed energetically in junior jobs from Dublin to Moscow, brilliantly in Washington as head of the Office of Near Eastern and African Affairs (1945-48), and as Ambassador to Iraq (1943-45), Ambassador to India...
...Omar Bradley, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, crossed off an-expanded offensive as "the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time." Zigzag U.S. policy was further shaken by paying too much attention to allies, e.g., Britain and France, who had no basic strategic interest in Korea, opposed taking any risks, however minor, which might extend the war to Europe. Unprepared for limited war, "we thought we could not afford to win in Korea, despite our strategic superiority, because Russia could not afford to lose." Kissinger contends that a decisive Red Chinese defeat in Korea...
...most of its 20 years, the Social Security system is running in the red. In the fiscal year just ended, payroll taxes fell short by $125 million of covering the benefits paid out to 10 million retired workers or dependents. The $600 million that the U.S. Treasury paid as interest on the $23 billion Social Security trust fund invested in federal bonds more than covered the deficit. But this fiscal year the deficit will eat up all the interest payment, and next year there will be a gap of around $1 billion between Social Security tax receipts and payments...
...gone into the manufacture of tape recorders after one of its engineers had brought two of the Magnetophons back from Germany. ORRadio and Ampex worked together to develop the TV tape for rebroadcasting. Ampex was so delighted with Orr's new tape that it later bought a 28% interest in his company, supplied Orr with another $250,000 for expansion...