Word: spiteful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aircraft export orders (?18.5 million for 1949's first half, a 48% increase over the 1948 rate). He already has orders from the British government and British Overseas Airways Corp. for 16 Comets, and is hard after U.S. orders, promising delivery in 1952-53-No Hands. In spite of their lead, the British were by no means assured of victory. They have developed techniques before, only to fumble them at the administrative and production level. And there were still many jet plane problems to be licked before the planes were as practical as reciprocating engine types. They are inefficient...
Says Albright: "We don't hit for the literary type of the booklover in spite of all our walnut paneling. There are so few of them we'd starve to death in no time." Albright, known in the trade as the "corn salesman," once heard a bookseller complain to a publisher that nothing was being published for the thinking man. Said Albright: "I told them that the average man . . . couldn't read anything but corn and what we needed was more corn...
...spite of such reassuring facts, some businessmen had been hard hit. U.S. retailers reported that their sales were still below the 1948 level, and for 172 department stores, net profits for 1949's first half were 58% below the 1948 period. Some merchants thought that further price cuts were in order. Last week, five men's clothing chains trimmed suit prices from $3 to $10. One of the ten biggest U.S. distillers, Glenmore, announced the first major postwar price slash in bottled-in-bond bourbon whisky (a cut of $1 a bottle on Kentucky Tavern, retailing in Manhattan...
Louis St. Laurent, the man who must deal with Canada's economic quandary, is Prime Minister of Canada almost in spite of himself. Before joining the government in 1941, he was one of the Dominion's top corporation lawyers, a man who started as a junior partner in a Quebec law firm at $50 a month and steadily built his earnings to nearly $50,000 a year. His only interests along the way had been the law and his family. A new interest was injected one night in 1941 by a long-distance call from Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie...
Clark's estimates were close to those made by the New York Times's Will Lissner (TIME, Dec. 29, 1947). Nevertheless, none of his comparisons was likely to give the democratic world any conviction that Russia was politically unstable. In spite of a low IU, the police state still had the means to enforce poverty at home, to concentrate on conquest abroad...