Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he took the stand in the Senate caucus room, Tony Ducks was not talking, beyond muttering "I refuse t'ansuh on the ground it may tend ta 'criminate me." But Tony talked anyway-on six wiretaps played by the committee. In telephone talks with a Runyonesque rogue's gallery of obsequious underlings (including his front man, natty Sam Goldstein, who also claimed protection under the Fifth Amendment), Tony Ducks showed that he is a Little Caesar among New York's labor racketeers: as a top gun, Tony Ducks snarled out advice to his hoodlums. Item...
Funerals & Prizefights. Even as they burn their mortgages, contribute heavily to charities and tend their investments,, lodge officials have bumped up against a discouraging fact of 1957: the old prestige and royal good fellowship just aren't there any more. Evidence: fewer than 15% of the nation's joiners, whether Odd Fellows. Shriners, Eagles or Woodmen, bother to show up for lodge meetings, except on rare special occasions, e.g., a New Year's Eve party. Explains a once-earnest, now-backsliding Chicago businessman-joiner (Masons, Maccabees, Woodmen of the World): "I know I should attend...
...basic tension, as in all such international church gatherings, will be between U.S. churchmen, who tend to be impatient of theological lacemaking in favor of practical action, and their European colleagues, especially the Germans, who are inclined to explore the theoretical ramifications .before rolling up their sleeves...
...Mellon National Bank & Trust Co. entered a mild dissent, warned that the growing population will produce as many problems as props for the economy. Said Senior Vice President James Neville Land, 62, in the bank's weekly newsletter: "Our rising population is creating pressures on natural resources which tend to retard further increases in material wellbeing. We must dig deeper oil wells and exploit less productive veins of coal and go farther afield for water supplies, all of which is a drag on prosperity...
...other hand, Banker Land sees compensating advantages when producers have more nonproducers to support. Business recessions may tend to be less severe. "Consumption by children and old people is relatively necessitous and nonpostponable; when they make up a greater segment of the total population, the downturns in total consumer buying may be less pronounced." And "population growth minimizes the effects of overexpansion made by business. It doesn't take as long to grow up to excess capacity when population is rising...