Word: needlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Chrysler quit the railroad when its president gave him a needless bawling out over a hotbox. He hired on with the American Locomotive Co., and in less than two years, at 36, he became works manager of its Allegheny plant. Then one day in 1911 a man named Nash from Flint, Mich, offered him the job of running the Buick plant. It meant less money, but Chrysler had never got automobiles out of his mind; he accepted. He scrapped Buick's leisurely, carriage-maker methods, soon jacked production from 45 to 200 cars a day. The money took care...
...certainly hard to understand why a convinced non-Communist should make it a matter of absolute and ultimate principle to refuse to affirm he is not a member of the Communist party-needless as the affirmation...
...only was the Truman program inadequate; it was dangerous, Baruch maintained. "Should this bill be enacted, without price control," he warned, "the Government may get what it wants, but with needless delay and ever-increasing prices. The public will be left to compete for the remainder-with the fattest pocketbook, not the greatest need, deciding who gets what is available. This bill, gentlemen, is an invitation to inflation...
...Need. Yet consumers still rushed to stock up on items which they feared might be cut back by war production; motorists grabbed up tires so fast that some U.S. tiremakers had to put their dealers on allocations. As General Tire & Rubber Co. explained in newspaper ads, the rush was needless. There was no real shortage; the rubber companies were at peak production and in May had hit a new record of 7,369,190 tires...
Elsewhere, in lesser ways, other colleges and universities have seen the wisdom of cooperating. There is the Farmington Plan, under which 54 great libraries' plan their buying in common to avoid needless competition; the Oak Ridge Institute for Nuclear Studies, where 24 universities do research together; Chicago's Midwest Interlibrary Center, serving eleven campuses of the Midwest; and Denver's Bibliographic Center for Research, serving the Rocky Mountain states...