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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more likely subject was German reunification. Last week the man most involved, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, made it plain where he stood on that subject...
...market since late 1954. The two recent 10-point margin boosts (which raised to 70% the amount of cash a purchaser must put up to buy stock) were assailed as too small. The committee questioned whether they had much influence in bringing speculation under control, although there was plain evidence that they had in the way the market has been acting ever since credit was tightened (see below...
Free Trade Is the Issue IN 1947, the U.S. and 23 other free nations banded together in a trade pact called GATT. To many a plain citizen, GATT is nothing but a baffling set of initials. Actually, its meaning is simple. It stands for the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and it is the chief instrument for expansion of world trade and the amicable settlement of trade disputes among the 34 nations-controlling 80% of world trade-that are now members...
Through the plain talk on "Foster's Hour," as well as through other recent words and deeds of the Eisenhower Administration, the U.S. policy of deterrence is gradually becoming clearer. Its basis is strength and firmness. If the Communists resort to force, the U.S. will retaliate in kind, and will make the punishment fit the crime. If the attack is massive, so will be the response; if it is a peripheral attack, the answer will be peripheral...
...with Burra, evil ruled the conception. But this time the evil was not the housebroken monster of a man fascinated by undigested fears. Burra's Gethsemane faced the onrushing moment of one of history's greatest-though necessary-evils from a very great distance, and showed it plain...