Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although Sir Oliver's tenure as Ambassador coincides with the highest peacetime level of the Anglo-U.S. amity in history, there is many a serpent in that garden of friendship. Unique in history is the place of a dominant world power which gave way, without defeat in war, to a new dominant power and accepted the role of helper and next friend of the new leader. Such a transition is not accomplished without pain and tension. Part of Sir Oliver's job is to ease the pain, to save face for his government. In the recent monetary...
...pattern to be followed in other industries; this in turn might well cause price dislocations . . . interruptions to production might ensue." Steel workers themselves "would run the risk of losing more than they had gained." Said the board: "In general, it seems desirable at this time to stabilize the level of wage rates . . . the union [should] withdraw its request for a general increase in rates...
...spite of such reassuring facts, some businessmen had been hard hit. U.S. retailers reported that their sales were still below the 1948 level, and for 172 department stores, net profits for 1949's first half were 58% below the 1948 period. Some merchants thought that further price cuts were in order. Last week, five men's clothing chains trimmed suit prices from $3 to $10. One of the ten biggest U.S. distillers, Glenmore, announced the first major postwar price slash in bottled-in-bond bourbon whisky (a cut of $1 a bottle on Kentucky Tavern, retailing in Manhattan...
Sixth Ahead? As a merchandiser, he keeps a tight rein on management at the top level, yet gives his local managers plenty of leeway to run their stores. Like other loosely connected chains, City Stores cuts costs by centralized buying and cost control, hopes to do better the bigger it gets...
...look at himself in psychic undress and momentarily exchange his individuality for the plight of today's mythical Everyman. Dean doesn't have "entirely different thoughts now" (see cut); he merely has more incomprehensible ones. Psychiatrists may decide that Dean is now poking around at a deeper level of the subconscious; to plain folks and old-fashioned artists, it may merely seem that Dean conceived and drew them in a hurry...