Word: blame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hong Kong, Canada's Trade Commissioner Max Forsyth Smith saw an opportunity to unload some of Canada's surplus wheat. Canada has not recognized Mao Tse-tung, and has no wish to offend the U.S. by doing so. But many Canadians blame the U.S.'s "dumping" of surplus wheat for Canada's own mountainous surplus. At week's end, with the approval of the government in Ottawa, Forsyth Smith prepared to go to Peking to see how much hard-pressed Mao Tse-tung would pay for a few million tons...
...General David Sarnoff, president of RCA, says that the prospect of viewers in three million homes placing dollars in coin boxes to see a program would be so attractive that all good programs would go under this system, and substantial free entertainment would end. It is too easy to blame Madison Avenue for commercialism. The Avenue is merely the tool of the corporations which it serves. To decry commercialism is to decry the present American spirit...
Turning to the free world's businessmen, Black urged: "Your responsibility is a heavy one, for if the private entrepreneur does not come forward when he is given a fair chance, governments will act−and who can then blame them...
...convincing portrait of a man who is too busy being successful ever to know his own son. While this is something of a stock part, Daly lends it brashness and polish. The sequences when the idea finally penetrates into the producer's mind that he is largely to blame for his son's predicament are genuinely touching. Finally, Kim Hunter manages to show the mother's love for her son without once becoming mawkish...
Slichter complained that the Democratic statement contained "no yardstick to indicate how far credit should be eased." While agreeing that the tight money policy had retarded increases in production during the last nine months, Slichter said that corporations had received too much blame for price increases...