Word: turning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, he could have walked away with all the makings of a grade B movie script, complete with a theatrical producer, a dark-haired charmer trying to entice information out of him, and a sizable batch (89 pages) of ready-made dialogue. The script didn't quite turn out according to plan...
Continental representatives felt and said that Britain was becoming apathetic to European solidarity; the British in turn accused the continental nations of having no understanding of Britain's special pangs and problems. Last week, another working party sat down to try for an operation less painful to Britain. Said one cynic: "Their only hope now is to find a solution that dissatisfies everybody. In that case, you can get agreement...
Twenty Million Dollars. CHESF is capitalized at $20 million. Half of its initial stock issue was underwritten by the federal government, which in turn was allowed to sell 49% of its shares to private investors; the other half was underwritten jointly by four northeastern states, municipalities, private corporations and individuals. For added capital, CHESF is counting on additional government money and is looking to Washington for a $15 million World Bank loan...
Suspicions & Possibilities. In their turn, the steel companies bitterly denounced the whole idea of a fact-finding board as an abrogation of collective bargaining. They suspected, with reason, that the Steelworkers had played for a fact-finding board from the start, hoping that their friend Harry Truman would appoint friends of labor to such a board...
...Vandeveer is now a crusader for new tax laws that will encourage small business to stay in business. Says he: "I suggest that it will be worthwhile to turn the Government's inquiring eye on itself -and determine how the government's . . . bodies contribute to the delinquency of small business." But reforms, if any, will not do him any good, he says; "neither . . . investigations, decrees nor edicts . . . can bring me back to life as a competitive factor in the oil marketing business...