Word: oftenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Down, where a farmer defied the War Department's right in time of peace to hold onto land commandeered in time of war. or pleads for a Mrs. Christos, who went to jail for earning milk money for her children while on the dole (TIME, June 15). But often an M.P. has either too much work or not enough spunk to see an issue through, and the press is quick to shift to fresher news...
Elliott has often advised the national Administration on foreign affairs. Since 1953, he has been a member of the National Security Council planning board, and served as assistant director of the Office of Defense Mobilization from 1951 to 1953. Since the war, he has been on the staffs of a number of House committees on foreign aid and affairs...
...Wages. Many nations that once produced no steel or very little have begun developing their own industries, often with U.S. aid. India, for example, is modernizing and expanding its steel plants under the leadership of Steel Baron Jehangir Ratan Dadabhoy Tata, who has expanded his huge plant to a capacity of more than 1,500,000 tons of salable steel annually. Canada, once a prime market for U.S. steel, has steadily supplied more of its own needs from its growing steel industry...
...good reason why U.S. markets abroad are shrinking is that the steelmakers, like many other U.S. manufacturers, are not aggressive enough in selling. U.S. steel companies offer few credit plans, insist on payment in dollars, are often uninterested in working out deals with soft currencies. "When a Brazilian writes a letter to a German and an American steel firm," admits a U.S. steelman, "he gets back a letter from the American firm-and a salesman from the German firm." Says a Belgian steelman: "For countries like us, exporting is a matter of living, but the U.S. incentive for export...
...with an art-loving Mrs. Thicknesse; in Tents, the still happily married Chick all but fathers a child by an art-loving bohemianette named Sweetie Appleyard. Everyone gets back on an even keel just in time to sail into De Vries's moral harbor: "The conformity we often glibly equate with mediocrity isn't something free spirits 'transcend' as much as something they're not quite...