Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problems could conceivably cancel each other out. If Argentina would not turn the $750 million into an interest-free loan, the British might let them use it to buy back the great, unprofitable network of British-owned railways which fan out across the pampas. Argentina would prefer the $750 million payoff in capital goods. One obvious British fear: that an industrialized Argentina would no longer complement Britain's economy...
...there was little indication that the Government planned to make any such increase in the national pattern, as the U.S. had done with18½?. Rather than add to inflation by raising wages and then prices, as the U.S. had done, Canada still seemed to prefer to hold the line everywhere. There was but one significant concession: Labor Minister Humphrey ("Hump") Mitchell said that henceforth "just and reasonable" wage increases would be approved...
Smooth Going. In the U.S., the middle-of-the-road press reaction was almost uniformly favorable. Even the isolationist New York Daily News, which would prefer a free atomic armament race, and devil take the hindmost, said that the Baruch plan was best, if there had to be a plan. The Daily Worker in New York and the Daily Worker in London both denounced it. The reactions of these Communist papers, however, was less important than that of Communist Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet delegate. Pressed for comment on Baruch's proposals, Mr. Gromyko said: "So far matters are going...
...business; he hastened to defend American's air cargo plans. In full-page newspaper ads he pinned a discharge emblem on American by pointing out that it employed 6,000 veterans, was therefore "the largest veterans group in air transportation." The little business veterans, who would prefer to be the largest group themselves, were not impressed with the general's logic...
Last week the remarkable Inverchapel landed at Halifax, on his way to Washington as Britain's new ambassador to the U.S. There the Scottish peer uncorked a characteristic shocker. "Cricket is a dull game," said Inverchapel gravely, "I prefer spilikins [jackstraws]." Baseball, peanuts, hot dogs and slang, he added, were more to his liking...