Word: boldest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quinquennial Act," Churchill told the House of Commons that afternoon, rolling his tongue happily over the long, Latinate word. As outlined by the Queen, the government plans for the next year gave no indication that Churchill was contemplating drastic changes that might call for a general election. The boldest suggestions were 1) to ease rent controls in private housing, particularly where landlords were saddled with run-down properties needing urgent repairs: 2) to end farm-produce rationing completely by next year...
...business, Samuel Slotkin, 68, has thought of his Hygrade Food Products Corp. as a work of art. "I am not grubbing for money," he says. "I am painting a picture as a life work. Every day I put in a brush stroke or two." Last week Slotkin added the boldest stroke of all to his canvas. Into Hygrade (1952 sales: $137 million) he merged Indianapolis' Kingan & Co. (sales: $214 million), thus became the fifth largest U.S. meatpacker...
...piece "wraparound" windshields. Cadillac, which is boosting its horsepower from 210 to 225, will offer sports models with some of the features of G.M.'s futuristic, experimental models displayed this year (wire wheels, cutaway fenders exposing the whole wheel). The industry rumor is that Buick is taking the boldest step of all by adding to its three existing lines a sports model, with 170-h.p. engine and a light metal frame and body, to be priced somewhere between the Special and Super models. Chevrolet and Pontiac have kept their new looks top secret, but production of the Chevrolet...
...Federal Reserve Board official once wryly remarked: "Only a handful of men really understand the credit system." Nevertheless, it is in the field of credit that the Eisenhower Administration has made its swiftest and boldest decisions...
...Gasperi threw them out (1947) in one of the boldest, most important decisions of the cold war. A few months later he met them over the ballot boxes-an enemy more ruthless, more disciplined, better organized than his own wobbly coalition. While many Italians with faint hearts and fat pocketbooks began planning flight from the country, De Gasperi and his allies licked the enemy-fair, square and decisively. "He has done this thing," the U.S. diplomat says, "and because he has done it successfully, it looks easy. But if he hadn't done it, Italy would have gone Communist...