Word: soon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...specialist on Viet Nam, warned that the Paris negotiations would not progress "until the U.S. has accepted the principle of the total withdrawal of troops." Once this word is given, Devillers reasoned, "you unjam the negotiations and everything can be negotiated." He added, however, that the U.S. should act soon: "Now is the crucial moment. If they [the Americans] make no gesture within the next 15 days, the conclusion which will be drawn at Hanoi is that decidedly the only course is to fight, that they can only continue the war to the bitter...
...forget has understandably raised many a questioning eyebrow. "The hardest thing when I first started was getting permission," says Bernhard. "They thought I was crazy." Descended from coal miners and steel workers, Becher came to his interest in industrial relics naturally. At first he pursued a painting career, soon found that the sights that captivated him were factories, machinery, construction sites...
...grimy industrial town of Lille-and the same black car. When the eldest brother, Bernard, took over his family's M. J. Willot Co. in Lille in 1954, it employed 200 people who produced a $3,000,000-a-year volume of bandages and baby diapers. Bernard was soon able to squeeze out 20% profits on those sales, and he used the added income to expand...
First to Go. Soon Bernard and his brothers realized that many ill-managed French textile firms needed just a little push to fall into their hands. Openly or covertly, they managed to get the balance sheets of failing companies, then they made their...
...Soon Eddie has enough political and financial leverage to engineer, among other entertainments, the election of Warren G. Harding and the stock market crash of '29. (One of his hired hands -a rather unsteady parody of the real Arnold Rothstein-amuses himself with the trivial business of fixing the 1919 World Series.) Somewhere in the middle of the corporate organization chart, Al Capone also works for Eddie...