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...days are gone when United States investors could strip a South American industry of its profits and end by exporting more money than they brought in for initial capital or improvements, over also are the gravy train days when easy Government loans were the watchword. Established on a basis of mutual dependency and profit between capital supplies in this country and the South American industries--each protected by reasonable South American laws--loans could, in the future, act as another bulwark to inter-American mutual aid and understanding...
...signal the worst curves (unfortunately, other drivers had also painted the course in stretches and confused the system). Thousands of Mexican soldiers were assigned to patrol the route, ward off unwary roadsiders. But safety seldom wins a race. For five days, over eight separately timed laps, speed was the watchword...
Apparently they are beginning to destroy the profession's confidence in itself. For students and teachers alike, the new watchword seems to have become "caution," and, says President Virgil Hancher of the State University of Iowa, "Teachers were never meant to be cautious." To some extent, the caution is still something to joke about ("What, reading Communist literature again?" said a Princeton student, on spotting a classmate with the New Republic). But the jokes are not much more than a veneer. The academic motto for 1953 is fast becoming: "Don't say, don't write...
...spending plans indicated that U.S. customers this year plan to outspend 1952 on autos, electrical appliances and houses. Thus encouraged, and with plenty of steel, automakers boosted their week's production to 168,288 cars, the highest in two years. As far as anyone could see, the watchword for the free economy was full speed ahead...
...watchword of the Brown-Crimson hockey series. Brown, with a 3 to 1 win in the teams' first meeting is due for the tat tonight...