Word: returning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...this country, but we spend billions of dollars in both tangible as well as intangible ways for not doing it and these costs will continue to escalate. So, just as we spent $17 billion for the GI Bill after World War II, the figures now show that the return is around $25 billion, from the standpoint of their ability to pay higher taxes, the skills that they have developed, the contributions they have made...
...become increasingly dependent on the intellectual resources of the American university to fuel that machine. The billions of dollars which federal authorities dole out each year to the nation's most eminent scholars to perform war-related research-not to mention the talent they avail themselves of in return-constitute an irreplaceable item on the government's yearly budget...
ANOTHER tactic of questionable effectiveness is the proposed May 9 demonstration in Washington. Before concentrating their energies toward this demonstration, strike leaders should ask themselves what will come afterward. When the buses return from Washington will most demonstrators, feeling they've made their contribution, disappear completely from the movement and spend the remainder of the strike on Cape Cod? Moreover, the short time available for planning the demonstration, and the experience of April 15 in Boston would seem to indicate that going to Washington en masse could produce sporadic street-fighting, and a further division of the movement from...
...Ling has been liquidating other LTV holdings in order to meet his interest charges and bank loans. As he explains it, LTV will retire $112 million in loans due next year by selling either Braniff or Okonite, both of which Ling agreed to dispose of within three years in return for Justice Department withdrawal of the J. & L. antitrust suit. In February, LTV got $63 million by selling its holdings in Wilson Sporting Goods, and this too can be applied to the debt. Earlier this month, LTV Altec sold Allied Radio Corp. for $30 million. Meanwhile, Ling...
...small classics. Noon Wine (1937), a short novel, recounts a stark frontier tragedy of murder and remorse as muted and inevitable as anything by Thomas Hardy. Another flawless short novel, Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939), describes the descent of a consciousness toward death-and its reluctant return to life -with mesmeric power...