Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Fifth Ave. at 59th Street. The Carnaval Room features dinner and supper dance music by sundry gypsies and Lester Lanin. Drop down a couple of blocks to 152 E. 55th Street, if you prefer, and be amused by a half-dozen entertainers while you cup at the Blue Angel. Le Huban Bleu 4 E. 56th, features no less then ten nightclub artists to distract you during supper. Le Coq Rouge, just down the block from Le Ruban at 65 E. 56th, supplies Phil D'Arey's trio and Eddie Davis's orchestra. There is dancing here, very hard while...
...women in politics, Millicent Carey Mclntosh, dean of Barnard College, had a hunch that more girls would grow up to become Senators. But a lady President? Out of the question: "Other women wouldn't vote for her . . . Women themselves are extremely conservative about other women. They still prefer men doctors or lawyers or bosses...
Isbrandtsen rides his crews hard, insists on quick turnarounds and a minimum of shore leave, is considered by many maritime men the most efficient U.S. shipper. Other shippers make no bones about their dislike of him because he 1) accepts no Government subsidies ("I prefer to earn my own money"), and 2) has fought long & hard against the conferences by which most U.S. shippers' rates are set. His most effective weapon to get business is to undercut the conference rates. Said one conference shipper: "He's the smartest damn guy in the whole business. You can hardly...
Westerners are apt to prefer the lively grace of Greek art to the detachment and restraint of the Egyptian, but some Greeks preferred the Nile product. "Long ago," wrote Plato in the Laws, the Egyptians recognized that "their young citizens must be habituated to forms and strains of virtue. These they fixed, and exhibited the patterns of them in their temples; and no ... artist is allowed to innovate upon them . . ." Plato exaggerated...
Needed: Statesmanship. Since higher corporate taxes tend to build themselves into the permanent tax structure, many businessmen probably prefer an excess profits tax which would end with the emergency. But the emergency which the U.S. now faces, as Harvard's Sumner H. Slichter pointed out, may last for a decade or more. During that time the U.S. must expand all of its resources in a production race with Russia. "We must see that our productive capacity grows rapidly," says Slichter. "An excess profits tax which discourages the growth of productive capacity ... could help us lose the contest. An excess...