Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power base secure, T.R. kicked off a momentous new-century campaign to save his countrymen from "government by plutocracy or by mob." His first milestone breakthroughs: 1) first successful antitrust suit brought by an American President to dissolve a corporate monopoly-the Northern Securities Co.-to safeguard right of free competition; 2) first mediation between management and labor by an American President-in the great anthracite coal strike-to safeguard the public welfare, including the rights of labor. But T.R., conservative, added: "I wish the labor people absolutely to understand that I set my face like flint against violence...
...Parliament clamoring for the truth, Nehru reluctantly appointed a Bombay judge to make a special inquiry. Testimony brought out that Krishnamachari's principal aide, finance secretary H. M. Patel, had ordered the corporation's officers to carry out the deal and that its direct result was to save the financial position of Promoter Mundhra. a boy-wonder financier who began as a light-bulb salesman, pyramided his holdings by fast deals and stock juggling into a $10 million empire...
...product that Europeans had begun shipping to the U.S. They sent technicians to Tsubame, supplied it with equipment, orders and credits When U.S. silverware makers also be gan feeling hot European competition against their plated tableware, they too joined in building up Tsubame's production in order to save the expense of shifting to stainless-steel production in their own plants. Tsubame exports to the U.S. soared from 421,476 dozen pieces, valued at $396,000 in 1953 to 5,900,000 dozen, worth...
Second Thoughts. All week long France's allies worked feverishly to find a solution that would save face all around. In New York members of Britain's U.N. delegation scurried about trying to drum up support for a demilitarized Tunisian-Algerian border patrolled by a force similar to the UNEF in Gaza. One obvious objection to this scheme: it would severely handicap the Algerian rebels by depriving them of their privileged sanctuary and would thereby damage Bourguiba's prestige with his countrymen, the bulk of whom ardently support the rebel cause. In Paris U.S. Ambassador Amory Houghton...
...live. In sleepy little Ophelia (pronounced "afailure") the drama of life has no acts, only intermissions, and Floyd is scarcely prepared for center stage in the town's morbidly engaged affections. He makes only one promise to himself: "From now on I shall try to please nobody, save my Maker...