Word: spadework
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...Harriman, the New Dealing multimillionaire with wide experience in the Federal Government and an important victory at the polls (in 1954, over Senator Irving Ives). As a fast-moving, "inactive" candidate, Harriman has been the subject of complimentary remarks by former President Harry Truman and the beneficiary of considerable spadework by Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio...
Economics is everybody's business in the U.S. today, largely because of the spadework of Washington's Brookings Institution. One of the first U.S. organizations to realize that the economy had grown too complex to be easily comprehensible, the institution set out 29 years ago to educate the public on economic and government affairs. Last week the institution published a book designed to encourage the businessman to do still more of his own economic thinking...
...chatted cordially with Aramburu and held lengthy talks with Aramburu's No. 1 economic advisor, Raúl Prebisch. They agreed to go ahead with the $60 million U.S. loan for an Argentine steel mill that had been in the works under Perón, and completed the spadework for future credits...
Sweden's scholarly King Gustaf VI Adolph, 72, flew to Britain for a week's prowling in museums and art galleries, wound up his stay by picking up an honor ary Doctor of Letters degree at Oxford University for his pioneering spadework as an archaeologist...
...College, did the traditional Mormon missionary stint in England for two years, and then returned to Utah for further study. In 1929 he attended George Washington University in Washington, D.C. At the same time, he worked for Massachusetts Senator David Walsh on tariff matters, doing much of the spadework on the famed Hawley-Smoot tariff bill. The next year he joined Aluminum Co. of America, among other jobs was a door-to-door salesman in Los Angeles before returning to Washington as a lobbyist for the company when it was investigated on antitrust charges in 1937. He joined the Automobile...