Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...give and give, and the Russians take and take. Ben Franklin prophesied it succinctly: "Those who give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety...
...release the nets. In all, there were twelve cuts in the five cables (nine tension breaks and three man-made cuts), all made in the vicinity of the trawler's operations. The U.S. reserved the right to make claims for damages and demanded that the Soviets take "such measures as are necessary to punish those who may be found to be guilty...
...wave length, and radio-TV newsmen elsewhere are wary. Wiped out in the primary as usual, Daly bought an ad in the Chicago Tribune to announce himself as a write-in candidate for mayor: "Eligible to all-free and equal and purchasable TV-radio time. TV-radio licensees-take notice! Forewarned is forearmed...
Most economists of stature smile at the administered-prices argument. John Kenneth Galbraith, Harvard economist, author of the currently popular The Affluent Society, and in no sense an apologist for business, takes the line that a large amount of administered pricing is inherent in the modern economic system. Says he: "Those who deplore it are wasting their breath. The problem is to understand it and to live with it." The overlooked truth that Galbraith and others come back to is that businessmen today cannot operate on prices that run up and down like a boiler-room thermometer. They have...
...quickly recovered by using Bankers Securities to take over City Stores (Oppenheim-Collins and Franklin Simon), Loft Candy Corp. (267 stores) and other diversified interests. Greenfield, a big booster of Philadelphia urban redevelopment and the Democratic Party, will be succeeded by Gustave G. Amsterdam, 50, an associate for the past 20 years and president of Bankers Securities since...