Word: cleanups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their main business is extortion. Prying protection money from taxi drivers, prostitutes, shopkeepers, housewives and small schoolchildren alike, they rake in as much as $350,000 a month. Cambridge-educated Lee Kuan Yew, becoming independent Singapore's first Prime Minister last June, set out on a crime cleanup, but even so, all forms of lawlessness have increased in Singapore this year, and already there have been 55 murders, v. 38 all last year. A month ago, when Triad hoodlums kidnaped Chinese Millionaire Chia Yee Soh and got a fat ransom for his return, Lee and his Cabinet declared...
...asked Symington to take one more "load-of-coal" job for him: tidying up the scandal-ridden Reconstruction Finance Corp. Symington opened up RFC records to goldfish-bowl scrutiny by the press, fired employees tangled in the influence-peddling web. It was dreary, thankless work. In early 1952, his cleanup chores done, he resigned and went back to St. Louis, intending to get back into moneymaking...
...passengers a day, and they boast that they are erecting enough other buildings to give the capital a total of 398 million sq. ft. of new floor space-more than 14 times that of all the office buildings put up in Manhattan since the war. In a three-day cleanup campaign, 1,000,000 Peking residents claim to have collected refuse, dirt and mud sufficient to build a wall "three feet wide and 21 feet high, running 1,200 miles from Peking to Canton." And in an outburst of planned gaiety, the commissars had promised a brief bounty of meat...
...Mexican voices deplore journalistic corruption, sometimes with mild effect. Some reporters and editors are scrupulously honest. Mexican President López Mateos, who personally endorsed the Reporters Union's announced cleanup campaign, also ordered a cut in government handouts to reporters. But none of the solutions proposed-more pay, stringent rules of conduct for reporters-are steadfastly based in the simple, workable journalistic premise that truth pays...
Williams, pitcher-outfielder from Oklahoma City, will play in left, except when he takes his turn on the mound. Switch-batter Williams is a long-ball hitter and will bat cleanup. Also very strong at the plate is Drummey, left-handed lead off man, who hits to all fields. Morse and Bernstein, who bats from the left side, are also expected to compile high averages this spring...