Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is much that can be done to relieve the plight of the unemployed, yet the President has assumed that conditions will work themselves out in time. On a more positive level, state and local governments are fast using up their relief funds, and for many workers, unemployment benefits, which are generally paid only for a 26-week period, are fast being exhausted...
...along by reporting surges of what was called "world opinion" in favor of a parley to "end" the cold war. When the U.S., anxious not to repeat the letdown of 1955's spirit of Geneva, insisted that points at issue be explored at the foreign minister or ambassadorial level before any summit meeting, the Kremlin set about making mileage with the appeasement-minded by charging that the U.S. "attitude on peace" was "negative...
...company everyone is watching is what Beech calls the "boys across the street." Cessna's President Dwane Wallace has built a young, eager outfit with plenty of stress on foresight and imagination. At Beech, less than half the executives are pilots; at Cessna, everyone down to middle-management level knows how to fly as well as sell...
...full name: Compagnie Financiere Beige des Petroles). Says Managing Director Laurent Wolters in Brussels: "We consider that the time to buy is when things are bad, because you can get them at a reasonable price. Industry-wise, the situation is dreadful, but our situation is good." On a global level, the policy has worked well. Stripped of almost everything but its name after World War II, when the Communists nationalized its Rumanian oilfields, Petrofina swapped its license to refine in France with British Petroleum for a guaranteed supply of crude, revitalized affiliates, merged, swapped and bought outright until...
...leper of modern history, as Greene sees him, is the American-he of the "young and unused face" who has made "a profession of friendship, as though it were law or medicine," and who goes about the world infecting whole continents with the botch of good will. On one level the book is a passionate editorial against U.S. innocence abroad. On another it is, perhaps unconsciously, a revealing study of a new phenomenon of history: a British inferiority complex-the mixture of fury and self-pity with which the old cock of the walk surveys the new. On still another...