Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...State Herter, patiently explained that trade bans were largely Congress' affair, and what about the lend-lease bill? Last week, his patience worn thin after four fruitless sessions, "Chip" Bohlen broke off the talks, marking the third U.S. failure since 1947 to get a pennies-on-the-dollar settlement of a bad debt...
...assisting the Emperor to make the decision." As always, Kishi had a practical plan. Japan, he argued, was using only 10% of its production in the war with China ("Chicken feed!"), and by properly organizing the remainder could win quick military successes in Asia, and then negotiate a settlement with the U.S. and Britain that would leave Japan in control of most of the Pacific...
...than a decade ago. Buyers were loading up because all signs point to a banner year, e.g., December business set records and January department-store sales are running 9% ahead of the year-ago rate. Some of the freest spenders in Manhattan came from cities that the steel-strike settlement helped most-Pittsburgh, Youngstown, Cleveland, Birmingham, Detroit. "The buyers have a lot of money, and they are spending it like mad," said Felix Lilienthal Jr., president of a company that buys for stores with total sales of $850 million. "They are also trading up, buying better merchandise...
...bureaucratic bungling, for which he conceived a lifelong, livid distaste. Engaged to be married, he found himself jobless. Shute corralled a few like-minded airmen and venture capitalists, rented half of a bus garage in York, and Airspeed Ltd. was born. By the time Shute resigned, with a generous settlement, in 1938, the firm had a payroll of more than 1,000 men and more than ?1,000,000 in orders...
...Following settlement of the steel strike (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the stock market jumped six points to 685.47 on the Dow-Jones industrial average, eased back at week...