Word: afterthought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know whether the Coop hired negroes. Mr. Cole became strong-voiced and frenzied. "There is no discrimination in the Harvard Cooperative Society." he proclaimed dramatically. "There won't be any! We've had negroes, we've had Chinese, we've had Indians, we've had Japs, but"--as an afterthought--"we still haven't had Malays." The student was satisfied by the answer, and the rest of the meeting came as an anti-climax...
Almost as an afterthought the board took one more sortie into steel's economics. For years, Phil Murray's contracts with the gigantic U.S. Steel Corp. have pretty much determined the contracts signed by the rest of the industry. In effect this has given him the weapon of industrywide bargaining and a tremendous power to will over the country's steel mills...
...business. Many firms have surrendered to it completely, have moved their headquarters to Los Angeles. Among them: Rexall Drug, Inc., Carnation Co., American Potash & Chemical Corp. With all this, Los Angeles is the richest agricultural county and the most productive dairying county in the nation. As an afterthought it raises 3,000,000 rabbits, 10,000 chinchillas and most of the country's cymbidium orchids...
...shocking-pink rate cards to its Mother Goose jingles on racial themes, WNEW reflects the breathless, bouncy personality of its manager, fortyish Tudie Judis. When Watchmaker Arde Bulova and Adman Milton Biow founded WNEW 15 years ago, Tudie was added to the staff as a $15-a-week afterthought. Today, earning more than $60,000 a year, she presides every morning at 9:15 over a highly paid and talented "coffee cabinet," which settles WNEW policy decisions without red tape and interoffice memos. "I love business," Tudie declares with a flutter of gestures and eyelids. "It's like...
...demand your return to office, would you run for the presidency?" Vargas squirmed. He twisted a box of matches around in his hands. He looked out the door. Finally he said: "The Brazilian people are suffering, particularly the workers. The crisis, in time, may pass." And then, as an afterthought: "Perhaps they need a younger man than I." In short, Getulio Vargas did not answer the question as bluntly as the posters...