Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Anglo-American relies upon personal interest to accomplish his ends, and gives free scope to the unguided strength and common sense of the people; the Russian centers all the authority of society in a single arm. The principal instrument of the former is freedom; of the latter, servitude...
Diverted Attention. When Blair's appointment as P.R.O. ended in April, Crown Prince Moulay Hassan asked the U.S. embassy to assign Blair to the palace as a liaison officer "indefinitely." The matter came before Premier Ibrahim for routine approval. Instead, he declared it "would not be in Moroccan interest" to accredit him. It was Ibrahim's last official action...
...story of the Tennessee Valley Authority is an epic in search of a poet. It has not found him in Elia Kazan, who produced and directed this picture, but it has found at least a man who can experience the elemental tensions of the tale-public against private interest, mule-team against machine society-and can extricate them from a script that smells less of the river than it does of the paste...
...Inland Steel Chairman Joseph Block, industry's pruning of its steel inventories is a "natural reaction" to tight money, high interest rates, and the knowledge that steel is easy to reorder. Big Steel Chairman Roger Blough does not completely agree. He thinks that many corporations have changed their inventory policy, confident of a quick and sure supply at a time when one-third of steel's capacity is idle. Stockpiles of steel among users now total about 16 million tons. Blough and other industry leaders are convinced that users cannot reduce their inventories much below 15 million tons...
...fight." His group bought into Cincinnati's Rapid Electrotype Co., a maker of mats and printing plates that was worth $3.800,000 and had liquid assets of $1,900,000. Riklis then issued debentures to raise $6,500,000, used part of it to get the controlling interest in another firm he was acquiring-Chicago's American Colortype Co., a producer of color plates. His next attempt, to gain control of Smith-Corona, failed...