Word: quickers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even New Dealing, rebellious Henry Kaiser, who believes in maximum expansion (he is currently spending upwards of $45 million on Fontana alone), agreed with other steelmen that the key to more expansion is the quicker-or more realistic-write-off of its cost. In lieu of that, Kaiser has adopted his own harsh substitute. He raised the price of his Fontana steel $30 a ton to apply against the Government debt on his plant...
Modest Boast. As the session broke up Christmas Eve in the ornate, damask-walled council room of the Pan American Union, all the delegates seemed satisfied. O.A.S. Secretary General Alberto Lleras Camargo of Colombia allowed himself a modest boast: "This is a little quicker than the U.N. Security Council...
...What's education for?"-ask three different educators. But, by & large, the "liberal arts" colleges believe that education should be for general culture, not specific training. Even in the liberal arts colleges, however, the present-day undergraduates gravitate toward courses that look as if they would pay off quicker in the graduate world...
...Talk. The dictator, now shaven, rolled upright in the hammock and dangled his legs like a man astride a horse. "Nothing," said he, "unites men quicker than a threat, so it was inevitable that we dictators should get together...
Professor Harris terms the twenty billion dollars intended for ERP a "catalyst" which, within four years, will help raise the national income of Western Europe as much as 25 percent. The increased purchasing power of Western Europe should also stimulate non-ERP nations to a quicker economic recovery...