Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...couple faces a situation like this. Most women would go to Reno and call it a day. I want to see it through. . . . If we wait perhaps John and I will be all the better and finer for it. ... There won't be the blind devotion, the dumb trust, but there will be a new understanding. . . . This is something all men go through. . . . This isn't a break. . . . I've submerged myself for John Steinbeck. I became part of him. I wrote verse. I put it aside. Nothing mattered but John. . . ." / / Composer Walter Joseph Donaldson, who sang...
...interview reeled off in Washington last week by Senator David Worth Clark of Idaho. Blowhard Senator Clark irresponsibly suggested that the U.S. should take full possession of the Western Hemisphere, including Canada. "We could make some kind of arrangement to set up puppet governments which we could trust to put American interests ahead of those of Germany or any other nation in the world...
...sell huge amounts of Series E bonds and defense stamps (face value: 10? to $1,000) to individuals, thus siphon off excess buying power and postpone inflation. Through June 30 (latest available figures), national bond sales were $713,668,000, a satisfactory total. But of this total, banks & trust companies bought about $460,000,000 in Series F & G bonds (face value: $100 to $10,000), because the 2½% return was higher than on regular "Governments." Average citizens spent a disappointing $250,000,000 on the cheaper bonds, bought automobiles and refrigerators instead...
...Attaché's door was the cousin of Brazil's Foreign Minister Aranha, wondering why his Navebraz shipping company was listed. Brazilian legalists asked whether Standard Oil's Brazilian subsidiary would sell gas to Condor. If not, would it run afoul of Brazil's anti-trust laws? If yes, would Standard blacklist its subsidiary? In Buenos Aires, annoyed and puzzled businessmen chiefly feared a rise in prices, since German firms usually underquote...
...formed under the auspices of I. G. Farbenindustrie, the great German dye trust, and it has prospered with the help of Farben skills and patents. Two years ago General Aniline-until then known as American I. G. Chemical Corp. -reorganized, and has since denied or minimized any Nazi affiliations. But it cannot seem to convince the U.S. Government that its ownership is in trustworthy hands...