Word: prudently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World claimed to know all this from certain Eastern European sources who had access to Moscow directives, but whose identity "it would be neither prudent nor proper to disclose...
David Bruce, 50, hale and pink-cheeked, directed ECA's mission to France. Onetime son-in-law (now divorced) of Andrew Mellon, a prudent man of varied experience (law, A.E.F., consular service, banking, corporate affairs.* Red Cross, OSS, Virginia legislature, U.S. Department of Commerce), Bruce had become bound up, to the exclusion of almost everything else in his thinking and feeling, with the problems, virtues and defects of France...
...Prudent Husband. Britain is now trying to buy most of what she needs from the sterling areas. She has reduced her dollar imports by 25%; the other major OEEC nations by only 15%.* Last week Cripps proposed that the others should make a further reduction of 10% to match Britain. At this point ECA's Averell Harriman, who had been itching to join the discussions, was invited in, and promptly threw his weight with the continental high-volume traders...
...billed as a compromise, but actually it was a victory for Cripps. For the next year or two, OEEC would let each nation seek recovery in its own way; in Britain's case that would mean continued efforts toward relative national self-sufficiency. That was what Cripps, the prudent husband, had been plugging for all along...
...common. It took traders no time at all to calculate that that was a return of close to 20%. And there was still more to come. Curtiss-Wright's President Guy W. Vaughan announced that at least $1 a share - and additional dividends as the "directors deem prudent"-would be paid...