Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...giant step forward takes place in Boston today!" caroled the newspaper advertisement. This joyful declaration was followed by the announcement that Hearst's two Boston tabloids, the morning Record and the evening American, had "combined into one." Henceforth, the dwindling number of Bostonians who prefer their news a la Hearst will have to get along with a single daily, the Record-American...
...lines to seek solutions to the weightier problems also discussed by Boyd and the presidents. Both sides recognized that the single most pressing problem is overcompetition. Boyd favors mergers to eliminate wasteful competition. Says he: "There is no magic number of U.S. airlines to ensure competition." Some airline presidents prefer an orderly cutting back of over-competition on key routes, which are sometimes flown by as many as eight airlines-with most of the planes hardly half-full. Says one president: "We should divert the half-filled jets to smaller cities that are crying for jet service...
...even as other newsmen, among them Ruby Hart Phillips, the Times's Havana correspondent for 24 years, reported these facts, Matthews stuck by his adopted rebel. Castro "insists he wants friendship" with the U.S., wrote Matthews in March 1959, "While welcoming American investments, he says he would prefer American loans." Two months later Castro an nounced plans to expropriate 1,660,000 acres of sugar cane owned by U.S. companies. In July of the same year, Matthews wrote: "This is not a Communist revolution in any sense of the word...
...itself 60% of the U.S. market for diesel truck engines. Cummins' achievement is all the more remarkable since it makes no trucks itself, must depend for its sales on the loyalty of truckers who specify Cummins engines when they order from the truck manufacturers (who would understandably prefer to install their own engines). In response to truckers' demands, most of the major truckmakers-White, Mack, International Harvester and Ford-are readying chassis to accommodate the Vine and its smaller stablemate...
Even then, some leaders of Tancredo Neves' own party protested. But Goulart wore them down in long hours of argument. Said Goulart. assuming the role of statesmanlike compromiser: "The political parties know, the Congressmen know, everybody knows that I incline more to unite than to divide. I prefer to pacify than to arouse hate. I prefer to harmonize than to stimulate resentments.'' And he added: "I can smell the people and I smell of the people. I assume the presidency with the responsibility of a man who understands reality...