Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rationing) or restricting imports. It would help, he implied, if the U.S. would get cracking on its professed desire for liberalized trade. "In recent weeks, there have been a number of signs of backpedaling," he remarked carefully, a pointed reference to President Eisenhower's recent decision to allow a 50% rise in tariffs on imported bicycles. "Now should be the time surely to abandon the metaphor and speed of the velocipede and hope for a more up-to-date propulsion toward wider trade opportunities...
...Stalas Luft, June '44-April '45), I would like to suggest a more realistic code to be followed by P.W.s i) Give to all men (primarily officers) who have knowledge of war plans a suicide pill to be taken when such individuals deem it necessary. 2) Allow all P.W.s the privilege of talking as they see fit, writing as many confessions as the enemy wishes. 3) Allow the P.W. to do anything the enemy requires except take action which is in any way harmful to fellow prisoners. Any P.W. found guilty of this crime to be punished...
...Peruvian President Manuel Odria scratched Peru's name from the dwindling list of American nations that deny women the vote. In his oak-paneled office, he signed a constitutional amendment extending full political rights to Peruvian women. Only Haiti and Paraguay still discriminate against women, and Haiti does allow them to vote in municipal elections. Said Odria: "Now the Peruvian woman can elect and be elected. I believe that she is at least as well prepared as the men to make proper use of the suffrage...
...Columbia) whips up the classic recipe for a melodramatic potboiler: mix two engaging scoundrels (Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons) with a brace of murders, add a pinch of blackmail, a generous helping of blue London fog, some bilious green Edwardian interiors, the clop-clop of hansom cabs, and allow to simmer for 90 minutes over a gaslight flame...
...bonus, every stockholder got a warrant giving him a "right" for each share of stock held. Eight rights allow the holder to buy a $100 debenture. He can hold it and get 3⅞% interest, or turn it in, after Dec. 13, with $48 in cash, for one share of common stock. This makes it possible for the debenture holder to buy a share of stock at $148, or $31 less than the current selling price. Thus a right was worth about $3.20 at last week's price of A.T. & T. stock...