Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year. But each case seems to get closer to the consumer's wallet. Last month a federal grand jury indicted eight leading steel companies on charges of rigging prices in the steel that goes into cars, refrigerators and washing machines. Last week the trustbusters-struck hard at the belt:in the biggest indictment yet brought in the food field, they made price-fixing charges against the twelve millers that grind 65% of the bakery flour used in the 40 states east of the Rocky Mountains...
...them have no running water and 1,400,000 no toilets. Yet rigid rent control laws and high mortgage rates (nearly 15%) discourage remodeling or new building. Around London, land use is dictated by community planning officials, who are dedicated to preserving an esthetically pleasing "green belt"; when they finally rule a piece of farm land free for building, the land value can jump overnight from $500 an acre to nearly $20,000. Occasional attempts by European governments to control or to tax land prices usually succeed in touching off a system of under-the-table payments that make mockery...
...Mississippi communities. In Louisiana, TV Newsman Robert Wagner was seized by armed Klansmen as he tried to cover their secret meeting in a barn not far from Baton Rouge. He was forced to remove his trousers, lie in a poison ivy patch, where he was beaten with a belt before being shoved into a dog pen on a truck. Beaten again, he was released under a threat of death if he reported the incident...
...other over its upper body-and cushioned that "passenger" against impact injury. Such bags, which can be inflated by a switch in the pilot's compartment when a crash seems probable, are the first devices for individual passenger safety under serious consideration by the industry since the safety belt...
Better Crashes. On the negative side, three rear-facing seats failed to protect their manikins because the backs of the seats snapped and the "bodies" slipped out from under their seat belts. The protective qualities of one side-facing seat could not be determined because the seat belt broke. As for the "pilot" and "copilot," who were given no special protection, investigators reluctantly concluded that they would have been crushed to death...