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...week's discussion had demonstrated that capitalism has more to offer the world than cash. Its message: through technology, efficient management, research and the brand of valor that McGill University's Dr. David McCord Wright called the "energy to venture into uncertainty," competitive business can widen the distribution of goods, realize new sources of profit and do both in such fashion as to fortify free societies...
...controlled to be encouraging. But as the stilted gambits of formal conversation begin to freeze into an awful possibility of utter silence in her presence, the Prince strolls up, speaks, and all the tight, polite smiles, including that on the Queen's own peaches-and-cream face, widen into the kind of relaxed good humor that warms hearts...
...Widen pay gaps between ranks so as to give able men more incentive to seek promotion and to stay in service. Under the Cordiner plan, privates and second lieutenants would get the same base pay as now, but a master sergeant's base pay would rise from $206 a month to $300 and a colonel's from...
...valve; it was crude and premature (all but one patient died), but it helped pave the way for one of his pupils, Dwight Emary Harken. In 1948 Dr. Harken was one of three surgeons who, independently and almost simultaneously, began to operate with increasing success and decreasing risk to widen mitral valves scarred and narrowed by rheumatic fever...
...Winston Churchill, on wiping out the German V-2 factory at Peenemünde, Sandys feels that Britain can be made secure only if it takes a bold stride into the rocket age. But his problem is the crushing cost of research development, and he hopes to widen the exchange agreement that he negotiated as Supply Minister with Wilson...