Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faith in the United Nations, for whose creation we are so largely responsible, the United States can not only help to solve the present tragic dilemma of the Greek people, but to revive the guttering hopes of the peoples of the world that America stands for peace on the mutual understanding between all nations...
...expert of vital foodstuffs to Bolivia, Argentina's dictator, Juan D. Peron, has succeeded in sweating an important trade contract out of mineral-rich Bolivia and has added another balky satellite to his growing sphere of influence. The pact was ostensibly signed in an aura of good will and mutual agreement, but actually was achieved through a complete strangulation of Bolivian economy. Dependent on Argentina for ninety percent of its wheat and sixty percent of its meat quota, the newly democratic government unwisely flaunted its independence in Peron's whiskers and speedily found that all rail lines leading...
...sought out a begrimed, grinning mucker and asked him to run for the state legislature on the Democratic ticket. Since then, Lewis W. (for Williams) Douglas, 52, has been led far afield from his chosen career in mining. Last week, President Truman called him from the presidency of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York to be United States Ambassador to England. He will succeed North Carolina's O. Max Gardner, who died on the day of his departure for London...
...service in the state legislature, he moved up to Washington and the House of Representatives. He was there when F.D.R. met him and marked him for his Budget Director. Since 1934, he has been vice president of American Cyanimid, principal of Montreal's McGill University, and president of Mutual...
...nation's welfare, Governor Duff told them, depends on "an entirely different understanding between labor & management than what has obtained in the immediate past. . . . That means mutual give & take, forbearance and cooperation. . . ." Unaccustomed to such talk, PMAsters uneasily shifted their cigars as Duff warned that they would have to face "such sacrifices of our interests, pecuniary or otherwise, as are definitely necessary . . . for the public interest...