Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Denver's DC (for Denver-Chicago) Trucking Co., Inc., the nation's seventh largest line (1964 revenues: $50 million), paid $2,000,000 to acquire an 85% interest in Amsterdam's West Friesland Eurotransport, Inc. Though West Friesland's business came to a modest $3,500,000 last year, the company operates in ten countries, far more than any other European line, and thus offers DC an ideal base for expansion. Italy's Fiat has agreed to take the remaining 15% interest as "a calling card that we are leaving with a prospective new customer...
...Lord Coal managed to turn a modest $3.9 million profit, but rising competition, casual labor practices and overoptimistic expansion soon reddened the ink again. "If we were a private corporation," admits Robens, "the stockholders would have been bankrupt a long time ago." The government's protective measures (a virtual ban on coal imports, a twopence-per-gallon tax on oil) have been to no avail. And, despite promises that they will get new jobs, the 120,000 miners who will be thrown out of work by the pit closures are no longer sure that Alf Robens is their best...
Last week, the Hartford Superintendent of Schools proposed discarding the Harvard plan and substituting "a modest experiment." And in Boston, although 13 suburbs have formed a committee to study busing students from the city, the School Committee has not yet officially decided whether the matter belongs on its agenda...
Repetitiveness is also writ large in The Uncommitted; Keniston repeats chapters as well as sentences. He has evidently taken the hoary Gen. Ed. A dictum to heart: say what you plan to say; say it; say what you've said. This technique puffs up what ought to be a modest essay into a 500 page book, plus a separate monograph, The Alienated Student, as yet unpublished...
...then the snarling exterior? For one thing, it's good tactics. In the protection business, the grizzly rumor serves better than modest fact. If the white Southerner thinks the Deacons are more like the Gestapo than Pinkerton's Security Service, why enlighten...