Word: vestment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them are truly outstanding." The Deport cites the Christian Science Monitor as the level of excellence Catholic publications should aim for. "Having first used the word propaganda, the Holy See has failed to utilize the best talent available in the field. Time and again it puts its worst vestment forward when the best side could easily be shown...
...relations, now approaching a postwar low, between U.S. companies and the Japanese government. Though U.S. industry has poured more than $229 million into Japan since the war, some 70 applications for $34 million in new investments are gathering dust in the files of Japan's powerful Foreign In vestment Council. Fortnight ago, FOAdministrator Harold Stassen announced a plan to guarantee future U.S. investments in Japan. Four companies applied for such guarantee, but none was approved by Japan, and none is likely to be. Reason: the government regards FOA's plan as a reflection upon Japan's "stability...
...women -ranging from housewives to the owner of a tungsten mine -bought solid stocks including such blue chips as Union Carbide (up 12 points, to 86) and Consolidated Edison (up 5 points, to 46). In eleven months they made $1,500, or 12% on their in vestment...
Flight was about the only choice left for the 880 French businesses with an in vestment of $240 million in Northern Indo-China, most of it in Hanoi. What the businessmen wanted after Geneva were solid guarantees of freedom and a sound financial basis for trade. What they got was the familiar Communist doubletalk of vague, high-sounding promises coupled with arbitrary action that showed Frenchmen-and all Western businessmen-the hopelessness of doing business under Red rule...
...sharp contrast, President Conant's formal vestment of authority was, by his own request, quiet and inexpensive. The year 1933 was a black year--depression had its effect in Cambridge as elsewhere. Conant felt an elaborate ceremony at that time would entail needless expense...