Word: sourly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both the Soviet sweet talk and the Latino sour pointed up the fact that Communist influence in Latin America has waned during the past decade. The only pro-Communist government in postwar Latin America, the Arbenz regime in Guatemala, collapsed in 1954. Communist parties are now illegal in 15 out of 20 Latin American republics. Only three south-of-the-border countries (Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay) maintain diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. Communist-bloc trade with Latin America, though expanding, amounted in 1955 to less than 5% of U.S.-Latin American trade, and Red performance on promises was ragged (TIME...
...Knife. Clifford Odets gums away at some sour grapes, and spits the seeds at Hollywood; with Jack Palance, Ida Lupino (TIME...
...Knife. Clifford Odets gums away at some sour grapes, and spits the seeds at Hollywood; with Jack Palance, Ida Lupino (TIME...
Curtice will not-and for reasons that are fundamental to the vitality of any large, competitive corporation. "If you stand still," says G.M. Chairman Sloan, now 80, "you go behind." Competition demands efficiency, and the whole efficient, smooth-running corporation could soon turn sour, as the Allison Division did, if it were forced to slow down to an artificial pace. Profits, in a modern corporation, have a function beyond providing earned surplus and dividends (and taxes). Under G.M.'s cost-accounting system, they are the key indicator of worth of divisional management, worth of product, personnel policy and planning...
...Knife. Clifford Odets gums away at some sour grapes, and spits the seeds at Hollywood; with Jack Palance, Ida Lupino (TIME...