Word: woos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...learn the importance of good relations with another big group in the company: the stockholders. Sometimes the lesson has been taught the hard way. The managements of such big companies as New York Central Railroad, Decca Records and American Woolen Co., which never went out of their way to woo stockholders, suddenly found themselves this year fighting for survival in bitter proxy wars. In some cases the awakening came too late. In many others management had to take desperate steps, declare extra dividends and stock splits, and hurriedly beef up stockholder programs to keep from losing control...
...gangsters together is a mutual advantage greater than the friction which might drive them apart. The possibilities of split are there. The difficulty is that those who talk most about exploiting the frictions (e.g., Britain's Bevanites) believe that the way to separate China and Russia is to woo China. The likelier method is to increase the strain on both nations...
...American Federation of Labor is making a strong 'bid to woo maids, janitors, and engineers from the local Harvard University Employees Representative Association, Francis M. McNamara, HUERA president, admitted yesterday...
...matters European, the final week of the conference gave Russia's Molotov a dialectical drubbing that he would not soon forget. France's nimble Georges Bidault, whom Molotov tried hardest to woo, tore into Russia's plan for an "us Europeans" pact that would shove the U.S. out of Europe, and leave all of Russia in. Snapped Bidault: "Lake Baikal and Vladivostok are no more European than the Mississippi and Chicago...
...give the Mirror a crisp, sensational style ("All news stories are written too long, including those in the Mirror"). Los Angeles, said Pinkley, "needs a fighting newspaper [and] the Mirror is anyone's fist in a good fight." The paper picked its fights carefully, more often to woo new readers than for any lofty civic motives. Mirrormen breezily campaigned against everything from "black-market baby rackets" and Southern California's "Saloon Empire" to ugly female legs...