Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long time getting passed by 36 states. In the interim, he is ready with a plan for evading the Supreme Court decision by "legal and constitutional means." Says he: "The effective way to oppose integrated schools ... is through the government of the states ... If we contest at the local level, by individual school districts, or by a county, or on a community basis, we are sitting ducks and will be picked off one by one . . . The state and no one but the state can segregate under the police powers . . . The state, if necessary, can abolish school districts, create other ones...
COPPER SHORTAGE in the U.S. will be eased by Anaconda-at a price. From now on it will price its Chilean copper, which has been selling for 46? in the U.S., at the London level (53? last week). Anaconda, which has been shipping two-thirds of its Chilean output to Europe, expects to sell more in, the U.S. when the price is equalized. The Office of Defense Mobilization is also easing the shortage by postponing shipments of 36,000 tons of copper earmarked for delivery to the strategic stockpile by June...
Violent Feelings. One big reason that the boss's son-in-law runs into trouble is that he "becomes the center of violent feelings-envious, disapproving, realistic and cynical." To overcome these feelings, he must "rehabilitate himself by doing his job better than the competitors on his own level." Actually, the bride's background counts for little: "The man who marries the boss's daughter is buying social, rather than economic, success. Business success depends not on whom a man marries, but on what his talents, energies, and single-mindedness of purpose are. In short, the wife...
...slackened tediously at the business school for a case discussion of why a female shoe maker was fired. The stop at the law school for a mock trial was more interesting and, with the aid of intelligent narration, gave a better insight into learning at the post-graduate level...
...apparent dwindling of exports to practically nothing, and the great drop in imports from the 1947 level, which was not itself substantially high, resulted from the previously mentioned factors of controls, Soviet demands, and business reticence. United States export controls stem from the Export Control Act of 1949 and the so-called Battle Act of 1954 (a product of the Korean War), which call for licensing controls on most non-consumer goods, and embargoes on most non-consumer goods destined for the Soviet bloc. In August, 1954, the embargo list was shortened slightly to put tighter control on a smaller...