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...This has been vastly swollen by the addition of new nations. We wish all these new nations well. Indeed we created many of them and have done our best to ensure their integrity and prosperity. But it is anomalous that the vote or prejudice of any small country should affect events involving populations many times exceeding their number, and affect them as momentary self-advantage may direct...
...belief that it is a specialized concern of a special few. This assumption flies in the face of an unparalleled broadening of popular interest in business. Whether as consumers, taxpayers, stockholders, homeowners, union members, employees or businessmen, newspaper readers are concerned as never before with the economic fronts that affect their pocketbooks. Millions of readers, for example, have a direct stake in blow-by-blow coverage of inflation and its many-faceted causes and effects...
...assets, for fear that they could produce a monopoly. Bicks soothed their fears. Though Section 7 of the Clayton Anti-Trust Act as amended in 1950 covers all asset acquisitions (it previously covered stock only), the amendments state clearly that "nothing contained in this action shall be held to affect or impair any right heretofore legally acquired." Therefore, he reasoned, a great many of pre-1950 mergers are "not subject to challenge...
Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney made this statement because of PHS concern "with broad factors which substantially affect the health of the American people." He was careful to add that "smoking is not the only cause of lung cancer." Therefore, "more research is needed to identify, isolate and try to eliminate the factors in excessive cigarette smoking which can cause cancer...
...result, North American said it might have to lay off 15% of its work force at the Missile Development, Rocketdyne and Autonetics divisions in the Los Angeles area-10,000 employees in all. While the Navaho cut will not affect North American's balance sheet greatly in its current fiscal year (ending Sept. 30), it will mean a 15% or more reduction in the company's $1 billion annual sales in future years unless the company finds a replacement soon...