Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thought your article gave a fair and objective coverage of a situation that is difficult to report without taking sides; it was bipartisan and showed how reasoning and sense disappeared when an irresistible force (Walter Reuther) met an immovable object (Herbert Kohler...
...early March memorandum to Moscow, the U.S. questioned whether Russia wanted a summit meeting "to take meaningful decisions" or "merely to stage a spectacle." Recalling that wording, a newsman asked Dulles if he thought that acceptance of Russia's terms would make a summit meeting a "spectacle." Replied Dulles: "It would mean that on the way to the summit we would have lost our shirt. Perhaps that would result in a 'spectacle...
...small investor, who will pay 30% more on a $500 transaction. He argued that most brokers are getting an adequate return despite higher operating costs, since commission earnings of Wall Street houses after partners' compensation and expenses run an average of 10.1% before taxes. But most Wall Streeters thought the chances were better than even that commissions would...
After a gloomy winter, copper investors thought they saw a few signs of spring. On the New York Stock Exchange last week copper stocks rose in heavy trading. At week's end Kennecott was up 2⅜ to 88⅞, Anaconda up 2½ to 46⅞, Magma 5¼ to 47. Behind the push was a ½? rise to 23½? a Ib. in copper price at custom smelters, which normally supply about 15% of U.S. refined copper. On the London Metal Exchange, where world prices are set and fluctuate with daily sales, copper closed...
This is a promising first novel that breaks a lot of its promises. It promises a richly informative account of voodoo and the Haitian mind and temper, but much of it is just tom-tommyrot. It promises distinction of thought, but a jungle growth of involuted sentences often chokes meaning in mannerism. It promises a clash between the life of instinct and the life-in-death of inhibition, but the conflict is reduced to a kind of nagging suburbanality about a dissatisfied wife. Still, the tropical scenery is far more fascinating than most suburbs...