Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basic gasoline ration was canceled last week bringing nearly a million pleasure cars to a quick stop. Britons were forbidden to travel abroad for pleasure and 30,000 vacation trips to Switzerland were promptly cancelled. At Buckingham Palace, all plans for an overseas honeymoon for Princess Elizabeth were hastily dropped...
Nobody wanted disloyal people in jobs that made them dangerous to the U.S. But the question was how to insure the maximum security for the state without trampling on the basic American principle of individual rights. To date, nobody had a good answer...
...majority in the Assembly? And was the U.S., which at San Francisco had favored the Big Power veto, really ready to submit all future security cases to the will of the majority of nations? These questions had always been implicit in the Charter; the Greek case was forcing these basic issues into the open...
Inflation. In Evanston, Ill., Northwestern University chemists announced that the value of the basic chemical elements in the human body, once estimated at 98?, has soared...
...Springfield, Ill., Governor Dwight H. Green vetoed a bill to abolish snapshot-taking in nightclubs, tossed the pub-crawling public a little basic advice: if you don't want to be photographed with the wrong person, go with the right...