Word: joining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...estimated 350,000 people, one-tenth of the population, are unemployed, and last week Bourguiba ordered all men over 20 who are not in the army to join a conscript labor force in a desperate effort to jack up the impoverished economy. In a fit of nationalism, he refused to devalue his currency along with France, and thereby priced Tunisia's products out of the world market...
...some Government help and a measure of relief from overregulation. But he thinks the railroads can do much more to help themselves - by merging. Last week Jim Symes proclaimed that he still has an urge to merge, deplored the New York Central's scrapping of a plan to join with the Pennsy, which would have saved the roads "$100 million a year." Said Symes: "I would be interested in any proposition on mergers." Symes thinks that the Smathers act is just a start in the railroads' battle for relief from overregulation and "discriminatory" taxes. He has asked...
...more people without bids may be worked into various clubs through the system of "preferentials." Men with solid, "first-line" bids to more than one club may notify a club that they will not join unless some of their friends with "second-list" bids or no bids at all are accepted...
Then later at the pool-hall I got into another conversational circle with some up-and-coming young professional men from the Syndicate. They were all talking about the South, but I was able to join in easily with an off-hand remark about Governor Almond's blowing "off his mask of cool legality" and taking "to the air waves like a latter-day Faubus." Then one of my business-leader friends told me that Almond has acquiesced to the court orders and had persuaded the emergency session of the Virginia legislature to go along with him in destroying massive...
Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Cartoon characters join a few selected actors, singers and musicians in a sidelong glance at Tchaikovsky. For the benefit of amateur electronic engineers, the program will be broadcast in stereophonic sound, utilizing AM and FM radio as well...