Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...flat turndown. The President was about ready to give in to congressional appeals for a reduction of wartime excise taxes, would probably agree to removal of federal taxes on such items as transportation, fur coats and jewelry.* But in return he would insist that Congress make up the loss by raising taxes elsewhere-say on corporations, which, as every Congressman knows, have no vote...
Charlie Murphy is only one of a score of men in the Little Cabinet, men the U.S. knows little about, who make it their business to know a lot about the U.S. The big wheels, like Assistant President John Steelman and Secretary Matt Connelly, have their offices in the White House. The little wheels around the Truman mainspring are located just across the street on the second floor of the old State Department Building...
...Charles M. Schwab on how to handle Morgan. In December 1900 at a private dinner, with Morgan among the guests, Schwab made a speech on the vast opportunities that lay ahead of American business. He said: "For instance, there is in the U.S. no one plant making steel cars exclusively. Instead of having one mill make ten, 20 or 50 products, why not have one mill make one product, and that continuously?" Morgan's imagination caught fire. He cornered the willing Schwab after dinner. Morgan, with Elbert Gary as his chief negotiator, set about the making of a great...
...half-century the U.S. met that threat with the cold war, which served its limited purpose of checking Communist expansion in Western Europe. The cold war, however, had not stopped the Communist advance in Asia and it had not prevented the Russians from acquiring the ability to make atomic bombs...
...musician to bring music to life, she seemed to have none at all. [She] is obliged to [sing carefully] by the poverty of her resources . . . Only at the end of each piece, when she stopped singing and smiled and became the lovely Miss Truman again, did she seem to make real contact with the guests of the evening...