Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wanted a lot of free publicity for himself and his magazine, but hit on a poor means of getting it. Why doesn't he cut himself loose from his wife's apron strings and find out firsthand what American men and women are really like, and then write his piece...
Later, Navy Secretary Charles Thomas gave him the Navy's Distinguished Public Service Award (for promoting interservice harmony). Talbott, who got into trouble for writing business letters on official stationery, brashly gave the assembled service officials some advice. "Do right," he said, grinning, "and don't write." His audience burst out laughing, and thick-skinned Harold Talbott strode cockily away with his medals, furled flags of office, and no visible scars...
...contemporaries in the German language-Gerhart Hauptmann, Rilke, Kafka, Stefan Zweig et al.-Mann was still a giant. And against charges that he was "Olympian," "pompous," "ponderous," he could well defend himself: "My endeavor," he wrote, "is to make the heavy light; my ideal is clarity; and if I write long sentences-a tendency inherent in the German tongue-I make it my business, not without success, to maintain the utmost transparency and spoken rhythm." In German he was an exquisite stylist, and he brought to that language a new sensitivity in the art of storytelling...
...FAST TAX WRITE-OFFS will be cut back still more by the Office of Defense Mobilization, thus slowing the rapid pace of defense-industry expansion. ODM has ended 19 categories of fast write-offs (asbestos, lead, tungsten, etc.) as no longer essential, indefinitely suspended 38 others (commercial aircraft, iron ore, etc.) leaving only 20 (copper, aluminum, atomic energy, etc.) of the original 225 expansion goals still in effect. New cutbacks will either cancel or postpone some 900 applications from U.S. business for $9.3 billion worth of fast write-offs...
...write the new pact, both G.E. and the union had given ground. Though the I.U.E. at first insisted on a guaranteed annual wage like the one the auto workers got, the union quickly gave in when G.E. turned the idea down cold. In turn, the company agreed to a hefty $100 million package that would raise the average hourly pay for 100,000 I.U.E. workers by 34? over the next five years, give them what amounts to another 10? in fringe benefits...