Word: making
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...maintain "effective competition," the President suggested that, wherever possible, synthetic plants should go to smaller rather than bigger companies. No single company, he said, should get to buy plant capacity to make more than 75,000 long tons of GR-S (a general purpose synthetic) a year until the Government has disposed of equipment with an annual capacity of at least 250,000 long tons...
...problem will be created. Natural rubber sales to the U.S. from Southeast Asia are the biggest source of dollar revenue for the sterling area. If that source is dried up, the economies of Far Eastern countries would be imperiled. In short, said the report, the U.S. had to make sure that in looking to its own defense, it did not ruin its friends...
Though McCarthy's request has yet to be passed on by RFC, it brought up a thorny problem of Government policy: Should RFC make such loans? The New York World-Telegram and the Sun was ready with a loud no. RFC has already lent $15 million for oil development to the Texmass Petroleum Corp. and, said the Telly, apparently RFC doesn't know that private "oil-country banks have plenty of money to lend ... If it is a good loan, how did the RFC get a chance at it? If it is not a good loan, what does...
...while, the prisoners, too, were at moral odds amongst themselves. They argued endlessly about the proper way to meet their fate. The doctor was satisfied "to make our peace with these things and die quietly, like men." Anatol, a shaven-headed ex-Communist, snorted at dying "gracefully ... It stinks of priests and last minute confessions...
...only pure drop of storytelling in the bucket; the literary spigot, which by Kipling's 24th year had already spouted seven fine volumes, began to go rusty when he was still a young man. But one good story by Rudyard Kipling is quite enough to make a book worth having...