Word: swaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adams did it* when Thomas Jefferson defeated him for re-election in 1800. He left the capital at dawn of Inauguration Day, and by March 17, 1801, after a 14-day journey, he was back on his Quincy, Mass. farm. He even congratulated himself, Yankee-fashion, on a shrewd swap, having made, he felt, "a good exchange ... of honors and virtues for manure...
Last week the talks which began in July ended successfully for President Bobst. In a stock swap deal, he bought control of the Maltine Co., set up its Chilcott drug-producing laboratories as a separate division of Warner-Hudnut, Inc. With the addition of Maltine, Bobst hopes to bring Warner-Hudnut's sales of drugs, now 30% of its total, into closer balance with its cosmetics sales...
Still in good voice, Lady Astor, who used to swap bitter words in the House of Commons with Winston Churchill, told a Manchester luncheon club that she'd had a change of heart: "We've never exactly been buddies. I never thought the time would come when I would...
...Government, which went on a buyer's strike against world tin prices last March, ended it last week. The terms of the settlement were something less than a U.S. victory. They were part of a U.S.British swap of raw materials, worked out by President Truman and Prime Minister Churchill...
Empty Bank Vaults. The consequences to Western defense are immense and progressive ; they would be disastrous but for a relatively mild winter. But British families do without meat because there is not enough coal to swap for Argentine beef; French steel mills stand idle for lack of coal and coke. The Dutch army all but disappeared over the holidays, when the government gave its soldiers an eleven-day furlough to save precious coal. Sweden sells its high-grade iron ore to Communist Poland instead of supplying its old customer Britain, because the Poles can trade coal in exchange, the British...