Word: needing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pump sea water from the ship's big tanks and replace it with enough compressed air to float the Queen. A diver went down, looked at the gaping holes in the starboard side; they ranged down as far as 46 ft. Lloyd Deir decided the team would need a prefabricated patch to cover the holes. It would have to be of three-eighths-inch steel, 20 ft. by 30 ft., weighing eleven tons. Deir and the others crouched on the deck, drew diagrams in chalk. "We all pitched in," says Cook Henley Doughtie, "but you can't really...
...intended to humanize him invariably take on a grim tone. When a small child cut its hands tending potato vines in a commune, Liu's reaction was hard advice: "Do not be scared by a little blood." And when a Communist bureaucrat, whom he was lecturing on the need for working-class experience, observed, "There are still people who regard working in the boiler room as living hell," Liu snapped back: "We need more such hells...
...Pont case would be used as a precedent to force companies, big and little, to shuck off blocks of stock in customer firms. But if LaBuy's ruling stands, it could set a precedent of. its own: companies held in similar violation of the Clayton Act need only transfer their voting rights. Deeply disappointed, Department of Justice lawyers may appeal. They well recall that the Supreme Court has reversed LaBuy once before on the case; it upset his 1954 ruling that Du Font's control of G.M. did not violate the Clayton Act. Last week LaBuy himself left...
...making a price hike now. The British Radcliffe Report on monetary policy this year concluded that such an increase is not "immediately necessary or the most hopeful approach to the problem of international liquidity," and the International Monetary Fund has come out against it. Gold-short nations that need the most help would benefit least by the change; the major gains would be made by such big gold producers as Russia and South Africa...
...stability. More important in today's world is the health of a nation's economy, the real rise in its national income, the strength of its built-in fiscal controls. Most nations now have learned the heavy price of unsound financial and fiscal policies; they no longer need the lash of gold...