Word: alienating
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...economic cloudburst" he said, would weaken the power of the United States to aid democracies in their fight against "totalitarianism" and leave free nations everywhere "easy targets for external pressures and alien ideologies...
...T.W.A. has been so rough and bitter that friends of Jack Frye thought he would surely look for a nice easy job after he quit as T.W.A.'s president. But this week Frye was elected board chairman of General Aniline & Film Corp., now controlled by the Office of Alien Property Custodian. And G.A.F. is involved in a squabble that makes T.W.A.'s look like a simple game of hopscotch...
...latest squabble was started by Remington Rand, Inc., reported to be the largest minority stockholder in G.A.F. (the Government owns 97%). Rand, maker of photographic as well as office equipment, seeks control of G.A.F., whose 3,500 patents make it the richest of all plums in Alien Property's hands. Chairman and President James H. Rand, 60, a brisk, bulky individualist who will go the limit to have his own way, loudly charged that the Government's Alien Property Custodian had been entirely wrong in seizing G.A.F. in the first place soon after World War II began...
This is still a good country. A month in the Britain outside London is enough to convince anybody that there is a lot of vigor and promise left in the people who live the real life of this island and who do its real work. The alien traveler returns to London with a sad feeling that all these confident, energetic, likable Britons whom he has just met don't know what has hit them. But their strength has always been that they never know when they are down,* and maybe that matters more than anything else...
Last week the New York Times uncovered a story that shocked U.S. music lovers. The Office of Alien Property, which seized the U.S. business of Puccini's Italian publishers as enemy property, had sold rights to the music to a Broadway producer, Milton Shubert.* Puccini's heirs and publishers were helpless...