Word: doubledealing
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"Worked fine," said the Ford executive. "More than doubled the load factor."
When the Navy did buy Aramco oil during the latter part of the war, Moffett said, his onetime associates doubled the prices he had quoted President Roosevelt, "deliberately defrauded" the Government out of some $33,000,000. (The Navy promptly denied this, said it had paid less for Persian Gulf...
English A, joy of the esthete and bane of the less creative, is a dying actor on the Harvard scene. But its venerable life has been given momentary reprieve by failure of the Committee on General Education to act on its own suggestion and integrate the teaching of writing into...
As a small boy in a California town, Maine recalls, he saw an inmate of an insane asylum taunted through the fence by a group of youngsters, until the inmate cried: "Come.on in, boys. They'll get you sooner or later." Haunted by this threat, young Maine never doubted...
Town & Country made money at it: frozen at 25,000 during the war, it doubled its circulation last year, cleared almost $500,000. Editor Bull wanted to plow the money back, give raises to some underpaid staffers and boost his authors' payments. He also asked an end to the...