Word: stave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest plywood producer.* But it owned little timberland, thus was afraid of being caught in a price squeeze in purchasing its raw material. This week Georgia-Pacific's Cheatham found a neat solution to the problems of both companies. He bought out the Johnson company lock, stock & barrel stave for $16.8 million...
...reported, among those who had made up their minds, an increase in Tory support (from 50.5% to 52%), but an even larger Labor upsurge (from 38% to 41%). It reported 11% of the voters undecided. It seemed unlikely that Labor would pick up enough of the undecided vote to stave off defeat. Unlikely-but Laborites, talking to keep their courage up, remembered Harry Truman...
Back in 1947, said Harry Truman earnestly, it was decided that economic recovery was what Europe needed to stave off Red aggression. A plan was worked out, and presented to Congress: the Administration hoped that European recovery could be accomplished for less than $17 billion over a four-year period. The last request brought the total up to about $14½ billion-$2½ billion less than the original estimate, with success in sight. The President thought it a pity to overturn the whole applecart in the interests of misplaced economy. It was not economy and it would never...
Prime Minister Clement Attlee, striving to stave off an election until fall (when home killings of meat may have upped the ration and the coal shortage may be eased), tried to rally his men. "Keep your heads," he told a meeting of Labor M.P.s. "Restrain yourselves. Have patience. We shall not yield...
...Korea, Matt Ridgway would not need culture and diplomacy: he would need all his ability as a fighting commander to stave off a powerful, ruthless...