Word: staked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plans to build a $12 million brewery near Halethorpe. Md. Carling officials were more irritated than worried by the bill; they can build in nearby states and truck their beer into Maryland. But the U.S. State Department was understandably disturbed about the measure. U.S. investors have a $9 billion stake in Canada and could be hard hit if any Canadian legislature retaliated against U.S. firms. The Department got off a strong letter to Governor McKeldin urging him to "give appropriate consideration" i.e., veto bill 38, and warning that "an unfriendly attitude toward Canadian investments in the U.S. could easily stimulate...
...records here." Snapped another: "These directors are big-salaried old windbags." As usual, Management Baiter Lewis Gilbert, owner of 20 shares (value: $447.50), had plenty to say. He wanted to know how much stock President Loew owned, thought that a president should have a stake in his own company...
Madame calmly notes one culprit's end: "She was burned at the stake yesterday, not Wednesday, as I had told you . . ." The woman who had been burned as a witch, La Voisin by name, was no innocent victim but a notorious poisoner and promoter of Black Masses. She symbolized the strange, diabolic resistance movement that flourished beneath the surface of official society, just as Madame de Sévigné symbolized the outer serenity and almost Japanese exactitude of social forms. There is no evidence that her 17th century mind understood that underground passion for evil any more than...
...second group . . . I see something more: this has been, if not my personal tragedy, then my continuing folly." Did the duchess ever consider jilting Edward VIII, or was her eye always on Britain's throne until he left it? She tantalizes her readers: "With a great throne at stake, a vast empire seething . . . I was unprepared and unarmed . . . in the eye of the storm . . . Had I had my way, when eleventh-hour full understanding finally came to me, this story would have had a different ending . . ." Promised by McCall's in next month's installment...
Industry and commerce are less passive, however, because they have more at stake. A home can easily become a tenement or a rooming house, but factories and stores are not so adaptable to the new conditions. Industrialists see workers forced into often unwelcome patterns, they watch tax rates rising, transportation clogged, and find that archaic land use patterns make physical expansion difficult. But industry, like residents, can move on. The expense is great, but seldom prohibitive if the demand for the product is not lost in the move...