Word: billing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legislature to enact a new Sunday closing law to replace the one declared unconstitutional in 1943. Under similar pressure from the big merchants and supermarket operators (who would have to pay union labor triple pay to stay open on Sunday), both houses of the legislature comfortably passed a bill prohibiting Sunday sale of uncooked meats, groceries, clothing, boots and shoes, alcoholic beverages other than beer...
...bill seemed as good as law when it went to the desk of Republican Governor George Dewey Clyde, 60, a good Mormon who had never been known to raise his voice loudly about anything. But this time George Clyde spoke up, sent the Sunday closing bill back to the legislature with a surprising, stinging veto message. Reasons for the veto: i) the bill was "inequitable" to small merchants; 2) through it. big merchants were seeking "to regulate competition"; 3) Utah's rich seven-day-a-week copper mines, not specifically exempted from Sunday closing, might be "seriously affected...
...maneuvering, President Giovanni Gronchi (who would like to see the Christian Democrats ally themselves with Nenni in an "opening to the left") had to call upon a Premier agreeable to Italy's right as well as acceptable to the left. Virtually the only man who filled the bill was wispy, courtly Sardinian Segni, who rarely provokes critics and never answers them...
...Tennessee legislature got set this week to pass a joint resolution asking the Internal Revenue Service to go easy on World War I's ailing one-man gang, Sergeant Alvin Cullum York, 72, long saddled with an income tax bill of $85,422 for royalties (claimed by York to be capital gains) earned from a 1941 movie of his life. Sympathetic taxmen hinted a settlement could be reached to let broke, bedridden Hero York keep his frame house, his mountainside farm...
...highest jump in history, indoors or out. Ron Delany, of Villanova and Ireland, who runs to win and no more, got such pressure from a topflight field that he lowered his own indoor mark for the mile to 4:02.5. Air Force Lieut. Bill Bellinger, world indoor record holder at two miles, set a new three-mile record -13:37. Shotputter Parry O'Brien uncorked a heave of 62 ft. 1¼ in. to better his own world record. ¶ The nation's longest college basketball winning streak was snapped rudely at 30 in Lexington, Ky., when Auburn...