Word: membered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think it would be a splendid gesture to suggest to the member nations signing the North Atlantic Treaty that they be allowed to liquidate their war debts in similar fashion. These funds could thus become great pools of mutual friendship and good will, helping the generation about to cope with world problems to work harmoniously and understandingly together...
...Corporation Lawyer St. Laurent will go along with King's Liberal Party policy, which launched such welfare-state schemes as baby bonuses, government grain-marketing and producer subsidies. St. Laurent has already indicated he may not. He once said publicly that "no government of which I am a member will ever subsidize housing." During the election, when a group of Prince Edward Island fish canners came to ask for a subsidy, St. Laurent shocked his political advisers by turning them down flat. Said he: "I have no intention of using public funds to buy up fish...
Wellesley Wellington Vandeveer, onetime member of the Petroleum Administration for War and present delegate to the U.N.'s Economic and Social Council, was a cofounder of Allied Oil Co. 24 years ago. He and Partner Floyd Roy Newman started with $30,000 capital, most of which was borrowed. They fought off slashing competition, plowed back their profits and finally built the company into a $50 million-a-year business. Last year they sold out to Ashland Oil & Refining Co. for $12 million worth of the larger company's stock...
...Jimmy Wechsler lamely explained that he was just giving his readers a fielder's choice. Wrote he: "We do not believe the gambling urge would vanish if we left this arithmetical intelligence out of this newspaper . . ." The Post gets its odds from a "reliable" Jersey handbook, presumably a member of one of the "powerful gambling syndicates...
...Concertgoers got a kick out of the program notes of John Antill's ballet suite Corroboree (aborigine for get-together): "Much usage of boomerang, spear and fire sticks." But its savage and original rhythms and percussive effects excited them to an ovation when it was over, though a member of the orchestra said, "From within, it sounds only like noise...