Word: explainers
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...capital plant has been paying off in increased productivity . . . The government [productivity] figures give an average 5½% gain m 1949; other estimates show that the gain ranges from 2% in textiles to 15% in precision instruments and 21% in the automobile industry . . . The productivity figures . . . help explain the surprising remark of left-wing Socialist M.P. Dick Crossman."I thank heaven," Grossman said, "that the motor car industry is still under private enterprise...
...crucial as any in U.S. history. Politics came first. The primary consideration was not so much passing bills as creating issues which could be presented persuasively to the folks back home. The strategy of the Republicans was to blame and reproach. The strategy of Democrats was to explain, defend and duck-or to demand laws they couldn't get and blame the Republicans for not getting them...
...Livingston Biddle Jr., 31, of the Main Line's very own Biddies, a great-great-grandson of Banker Nicholas ("The Old Nick") Biddle, a cousin of onetime Attorney General Francis Biddle and of Sculptor George Biddle, and the author of Main Line, a new novel that attempts to explain the society which produced...
Beautiful Phrases. Smith lived in the quiet conviction that the world was organized to satisfy his wants. Once he wrote to his disciple: ". . . a beautiful phrase is the most important thing in the world . . . nothing else really matters." Since this sentence was written in total sincerity, it may explain why Smith could never enter into any deep relationship with either people or literature...
Robinson is a former UCLA baseball, football, basketball, and track star. His ability at half-back won him All-American honorabe mention. In the forum, Robinson will explain why he accepted a professional baseball offer instead of football. He will also give some hints to college baseball stars with big league aspirations...