Word: rebuilders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Confidence & Growth. In 1938 Charlie Merrill went back to the brokerage business. Combining first with Pierce, later with Brokers Charles Erasmus Fenner and Alpheus Crosby Beane, he set out to help rebuild U.S. confidence in stocks by offering investors the most conservative advice, cutting out service fees. In 1949 alone, Merrill Lynch's brokers gave lectures to 30,000 women in 65 cities, spent some $400,000 on advertising...
...military alliance to a group of nations united by a common danger and a common philosophy and engaging in multilateral trade. Through such an expedient we could not only effectively weld a bond between ourselves and Europe, but, by means of the revitalizing impetus that trade gives to industry, rebuild Europe into a stronger unit, militarily and economically...
...helped spark the revolt that swung the Michigan delegation to Eisenhower. He won election to the $10,000-a-year job of state chairman after the Eisenhower landslide, was re-elected in February 1955 notwithstanding the Democratic clean sweep of 1954. He has since worked himself ragged trying to rebuild the G.O.P. organization. "In 1954 it was like playing the New York Yankees with a sand-lot ball club," he says. "Now we've got the bare beginnings of a start...
...special supplement on "The Arab World," Professor Gibb asserted that the momentum toward authoritarian national regimes is opposed by "tentative movements to rebuild the social organism on Islamic principles, and so create a moral reunion of the Arab peoples...
Konrad Adenauer returned from his seven weeks' vacation with an air of renewed energy and purpose. He had been badly shaken by the U.S.'s "Radford plan" to reduce U.S. military manpower, announced just when he was exhorting the Germans to rebuild their own army. But last week der Alte seemed once more the leader sure of what he must do. The Chancellor summoned the Cabinet, ordered his ministers to stop squabbling and get rearmament moving. He lectured a caucus of Christian Democratic Deputies, pointing out that the Suez crisis "illustrates the need for conventional arms and forces...