Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next step: a joint conference to smooth out the differences between the House and Senate versions...
Deceptive Words. The advance-fee racket begins, explained William Parker, a onetime "salesman" who spent 2½ years in prison, when a smooth-talking salesman finds a small property owner anxious to sell out. He ridicules his victim's low asking price, insists that his agency can get much more. After determining the prospect's wealth, he then asks an advance fee of about 1% of the newly inflated asking price, pressures the hopeful property owner into signing a contract on the spot...
...easily have wound up running a big corporation as a booming country. He is as far removed from the fiery revolutionary generals who founded his party as modern Mexico's well-scrubbed Sears. Roebuck stores are from a battlefield commissary. An attorney, ópez Mateos moved up smoothly in the P.R.I.'s inner circle after going to work in 1930 as secretary to General Carlos Riva Palacio, then the party's titular head. As Labor Minister, López Mateos settled 13,382 disputes with only a handful of strikes. A hard worker, he took his smooth...
...chatted with newsmen, looked in at the garage, where a 1958 Lincoln and 1957 Chrysler have replaced his old, modest Fiat. He promised a "down to the peso" accounting of his assets before entering office Dec. 1 and again upon leaving it. For Mexico he promised only a smooth bossing of the current combination of state and private enterprise. If he does as well as Incumbent Ruiz Cortines (who has seen the gross national product rise 40% and so far has ridden out the U.S. recession with scarcely a dip), Mexicans will be satisfied...
...faster. In terms of gas consumption G.M.'s aluminum-engined 1960 model is expected to get considerably better mileage than the 1958 Chevy. And as more and more aluminum parts are added, U.S. motorists may yet see that happy day when they can combine the U.S. liking for smooth-riding big cars with fuel mileage of 25 to 35 miles per gallon...