Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lottery-bond program designed to help finance a $100 million housing project.* Last week, an accounting of the Cuban treasury's cash reserves was finally completed. Discovery: in five years. Dictator Batista squandered $423 million, leaving the country with only $110,710,947, or some $60 million less than the legal minimum. To rebuild the reserves, a system of import licenses was clamped on a long list of goods-with the promise of stiff controls if dollar-draining imports are not held down...
Professors. "An occupational hazard is arrogance. This grows out of the easy victories of the classroom, where he works with young people who know less than he does. He may thus unconsciously come to believe that business, politics, and educational administration would be much better managed if those in charge would only apply the same intelligence to their work that he uses...
Gauguin's paintings are universally admired for the colors of a world sun-filled and yet without glare, various and yet disciplined like the rainbow. His woodcuts-generally printed in no more than two colors each-are far less known, but rightly emphasized in Chicago's show. Gauguin's Here We Love evokes that shadowland beneath the waterfall from which no traveler returns unchanged. His picture of a night-time bonfire conference is ominous with invisible evil (see below). Gauguin could create natural atmospheres with colors, and could create supernatural ones with ink alone...
...problem should be purely technical. But commercial competition and nationalistic pride confuse the issue. The British press has been loud in defense of the British Decca navigation system. Cried the Daily Express: "The Americans are pushing their own system, acknowledged to be less effective, but with big dollar investments behind it." Though the U.S. press has paid little attention, U.S., Government and commercial agencies are propagandizing vigorously in favor of the U.S. navigation system VOR/DMET...
Bell executives recently ran a test in Baltimore, discovered that telephone salesgirls sold 112% more department store goods than floor salesgirls, at a cost 51% less. They do not intend to let merchants forget it. Says A. T. & T. Assistant Vice President James V. Ryan: "We will soon launch an advertising campaign to persuade more people to shop by phone. The merchants had better get ready to handle the phone calls," i.e., install more, phones...