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...course's 100-member limit was exceeded by 25 to offset any post-sectioning drop-outs...
...already adept at the begging bowl, he was careful not to join in the open attacks on the U.S. or to mention any other Western nation by name when deploring imperialism. To do so would destroy the chance of wangling a bit of Western aid to supplement and offset the swag he had picked up from the eager Communists...
...unionists was a symptom of how deeply demoralized Labor has become in the wake of three successive election defeats by the Tories. Neither Gaitskell, with his "if-I-may-be-permitted-to-say-so" speaking style, nor the other practical politicians of the Labor Party have provided leadership to offset the doctrinaire Socialists and pacifists that have always comprised a major element of the party from its founding. These, abetted by Communists and fellow travelers and organized by such left-wing Laborite M.P.s as Michael Foot and Anthony Greenwood, have seized on the "ban-the-bomb" emotionalism to attack...
STUDEBAKER-PACKARD CORP. bought Clarke Floor Machine Co. for about $4,000,000. Purchase allows S-P to offset Clarke's profits against its own massive tax losses. It is fourth Studebaker-Packard acquisition in past 16 months and first since Clarence Francis moved in as chairman to speed up diversification...
...making. But in the last four years under President Harold Churchill, it has taken on only three smallish companies. The pace was so slow that much of the company's huge accumulated tax losses of $121 million, which can be carried over for only five years to offset profits, seemed likely to expire before they could be used up. Last week. as it brought out its 1961 models, the corporation also picked a new top man to speed up its diversification program. In as chairman and chief executive officer went 71-year-old Clarence Francis, onetime president...