Word: soled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LIQUOR SALES, in which a wholesaler forces dealer to take less popular brands before he can get scarce, top-quality liquors, are illegal, U.S. Supreme Court ruled. Case was brought against Magnolia Liquor Co., the sole Seagram's distributor in New Orleans, which required dealers to take Seagram's Ancient Bottle and 7 Crown brands in order to get scarce Scotch and Seagram...
Concerning your Oct. 21 Education story "What Makes Them Good?": I consider the method of selection used in Robert Marschner's list of outstanding secondary schools to be completely inadequate and unfair. To use the absolute number of 20 finalists in the Merit Scholarship test as the sole basis is to be unfair to those high schools whose academic achievement is high but whose enrollment is low. If such a list is to be valid, it certainly should be compiled on a percentage basis...
...Peace, progress and prosperity" has been a continuing-and unassailable-accomplishment as well as a slogan of the Eisenhower Administration. After Russia's Sputnik flashed across the sky, and after the stock market plunged, progress suddenly seemed-in headlines, at least-the sole property of the Russians. Turning to Washington for reassurance, the U.S. saw administrative confusion, sensed a crisis in leadership and demanded action...
...ailing President Shukri el Kuwatly grabbed at the offer. "We accept your effort with all satisfaction," he said. In the U.N. the other Arab nations, anxious to forestall further Russian meddling in the Middle East, privately urged the Syrians to accept Saud's good offices. (The sole exception: Egypt, whose President Gamal Abdel Nasser regards Saud as a dangerous rival for leadership of the Arab world.) Then the word from Moscow-"An effort to evade U.N. debate of Syria's complaint," snarled Pravda-got through to Intelligence Chief Lieut. Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj and his fellow leftists...
Erhard is not the sole motor of Germany's booming enterprise. Skinflinty old Finance Minister Fritz Schäffer, fighting stubbornly for his pfennig-pinching budgets, and Central Bank Boss Wilhelm Vocke. keeping alert hands on the nation's interest rates, have helped immensely in preserving the federal republic against inflationary dangers. But Erhard created the proper climate, bulled away the obstacles. Keeping clear of technical intricacies, he preaches the wider doctrine of expanding productivity, the Soziale Marktwirtschaft that might be translated loosely as "free enterprise alive to social responsibilities." It means, he once remarked only half jokingly...