Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number of forces will have to be overcome before the old enmities are resolved, however. Each country is suspicious of the other's use of American aid, claiming that when the U.S. strengthens one nation it endangers the other. On April tenth, Pakistani-owned Sabre jets downed an Indian reconaissance plane, an incident which did much to arouse Indian ill-will. Disputes over division of the Indus Basin and control of Kashmir have yet to be settled and there still exists distrust among Indian politicians of the military dictatorship of Ayub Khan's government, its absence of parties, elections...
Racing together will present some problems, since Smithie rowing form is quite different from that of the Winthrop oarsmen. The girls from Northhampton use a one-two-three-four stroke with each part a distinct motion, in contrast to the continuous Crimson stroke...
...mail-order house. Avery, the reactionary chairman of Ward's for 23 years until he resigned under pressure in 1955, finally quit as a director. At the annual meeting, shortly after the news was announced, Chairman John Andrew Barr, 50, told about the aggressive expansion program. It will use up the last of the $226 million that Sewell Avery hoarded from 1947 to 1955 in his belief that the U.S. was destined for a crash...
Besides wages, there are other explanations for the loss of the U.S. competitive edge. Some U.S. exporters fail to study the foreign market, use it only as a dumping ground for surplus that they cannot sell to the U.S. For example, Germany dominates the radio-set market in Ecuador because her makers produce a compact, high-quality, inexpensive multiple-short-wave set; it sells well in a country where much of the listening is to foreign stations. Comparably priced U.S.-made sets bring in only nearby stations, have only a limited market. U.S. businessmen find it hard to obtain Government...
...Plume de Ma Tante. The French are too funny for words, and scarcely need or use them in this madcap revue...