Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government concluded that it could not wait for remedies until the April budget. Pale and worried, Chancellor Harold Macmillan rose in Commons one day last week and announced his new measures. The day before, he had raised the bank rate (equivalent to the U.S.'s Federal Reserve discount rate, now at 2½%) to 5½% - highest since the depression days of 1932-in a move to tighten the supply of borrowable money. Now he jumped on the British consumer, who has been enthusiastically snatching up goods on the "never-never" (British slang for the installment plan). The minimum...
...Waiting Game. General Merino, 51, an able infantry officer, then sat back to wait. His boondocks uprising was shrewdly conceived. By merely proclaiming a rebellion, Merino forced Odria to retaliate or lose his strongman's prestige. But Odria was denied any chance of easy attack. Merino claimed the whole Second (Jungle) Division of 12,000 men (the whole army numbers 55,000 to 60,000). He also claimed the navy's Amazon fleet: seven 200-to 500-ton gunboats, and about thirty 10-to 50-ton river patrol craft. Moreover, most of the troops were inaccessibly camped...
Westinghouse, No. 2 U.S. electrical equipment-maker, would need up to 30 days to start heavy equipment lines, e.g., turbines and generators. But Westinghouse has lost only a "negligible" amount of heavy equipment orders, since most big customers can afford to wait. Westinghouse will also be able to catch up by boosting output in eleven new plants that were picketed before they reached full production. Moreover, said the company. 25 of its 58 major plants are still in partial operation, e.g., the Columbus. Ohio refrigerator factory, where nearly 6.000 striking workers are back...
...Charlotte, N.C., and Houston, where druggists refuse to fill prescriptions for strangers, often have to limit regular customers to a dozen pills on account while they wait for an overdue shipment...
...before World War I-as well as with antiSemitism. Yet his was the genuine voice of a man who has lost his bearings in industrial society. His sense of pity and tragedy never left him, and for men of such temperament who retain a materialist philosophy, there "lies in wait," as Whittaker Chambers testified, "the evil thing-Communism...