Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opposite page is an advertisement by a merchant in the Square ostensibly calling the Crimson to task for its stand on foreign prices down. Actually, in crying out against the high prices of the basic food commodities, he is echoing the Crimson's original warning--that retailers who did not join in a common effort to hold prices down would find their own living costs raised just as tangibly as those of the students who find themselves in no position to take advantage of higher wages or profits. That publishers, too, have raised the ante only reflects...
Although the new assembly probably will give Inönä another term as president, a basic change has occurred in Turkish political life. Two national figures, Bayar and 70-year-old Marshal Fevsi Cakmak, Turkey's most respected soldier, attacked the Government bitterly during the campaign. Bayar and Cakmak demand increased liberties and social legislation, but support the Government policy of resistance to Russian territorial demands. Their showing in this week's election is expected to encourage other leaders of Inönä's People's Party to break away...
...sort exemplified in a game of footie between two younkers known as Daisy Bell (Cecile de Lucas) and Thad Calhoun (Larry Sherman). Its long suit is actually scatology - lice, bedbugs, belches, outhouses, bare and dirty feet planted on the breakfast table. These intended guffaw-getters are complemented by such basic hillbilly humors as drunken lechers, gabbling halfwits and twitching hags...
...Washington University last week, Chancellor Arthur H. Compton assigned some 40 scientists to basic nuclear studies and the many unsolved engineering problems involved in making atomic engines Said Compton: "A battleship with an atomic power unit would use the unit to propel the ship, and at the same time might produce materials from which atomic bombs could be made...
...Bradstreet's daily wholesale price index of basic commodities, which had jack-rabbited up for three weeks, finally leveled off at 229.67, then dropped a few points. One of the reasons was the price drop in meat...