Word: potentate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cost-of-living increases granted under union contracts a potent cause Of inflation? Many a businessman insists that they are. But last week, General Motors' Charles E. Wilson, who started the whole argument by granting the first big contract with an escalator clause three years ago, took on his critics with a statement that they would find hard to refute...
...citizens, publishers, Congressmen (chiefly Walter Judd, ex-missionary to China), Senators (chiefly California's Knowland and New Hampshire's Bridges). It was yet to be shown that they had done anything sinister. Principally, they were concerned in saving China from Communism. In this they have some potent allies, ranging in the Senate from Ohio's Robert Taft to Illinois' Paul Douglas...
Biaka-Boda used to be a witch doctor on Africa's Ivory Coast. As long as he stuck to spells, charms and incantations, he was all right. His troubles started when he began to occupy himself with such potent magic as ballot boxes and election campaigns. He took the Christian name Victor, joined the fellow-traveling Rassemblement Democratique Africain, was elected to the French Senate. A small, thin, worried-looking man, the ex-witch doctor did not take to lighthearted Paris, made only a few appearances there, always seemed to his colleagues in the Senate to be thinking...
...Syntex process produces, along the line, whole classes of promising steroid compounds. Some of them have been found in adrenal glands, but in quantities too small for practical experimenting. Now, says Syntex, these "cortisone precursors" can be made in any amount desired. Some of them may prove more potent biologically than cortisone itself...
...favors for farmers: refunds from taxes on gasoline and auto parts when bought for farm equipment. The committee sent its bill to the House, which is expected to pass it this week without amendment, but the Senate may not act upon the measure until late September. Members of the potent Senate Finance Committee have already said that they will cut the income-tax increase, shorten the length of time for which increases will be retroactive, and insist that the Government trim at least $5 billion of fat out of its nonwar expenditures, in order to make the budget balance even...