Word: containers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Republican and contain a higher-than-average proportion of independent voters...
...ingenious of all British puzzle "setters" is a Sussex schoolmaster named Derrick Somerset Macnutt, whose crosswords appear each fortnight in London's Sunday Observer under the byline Ximenes (a Cardinal Inquisitor of Spain). Ximenes' puzzles, for which he is paid 10 to 15 guineas ($30-$44) apiece, contain clues that range from pure cipher through anagram to outrageous pun. Samples: "Pleased a bag ?14 lighter" in four letters;** "Important city in Czechoslovakia" in four letters ;†† "Shortage of bats at a high level" in six letters...
...party rules to be submitted to the Congress reveal no major shakeup, but nevertheless contain some interesting changes (see below). They suggest that Stalin is trying to tidy and tighten up the party, possibly to avoid, for a hand-picked successor, the murderous party strife which surrounded his own successsion to Lenin, thus perpetuate his power beyond death...
Exactly six months ago, the U.S. and its principal allies at Lisbon initialed the master blueprint for European defense. By the end of 1952, they would mobilize the 50 combat divisions that Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower considered the rock-bottom minimum needed to contain a Soviet attack. During 1953-54, if all went well, NATO's armies would be doubled, its air force would reach near-parity with the Red air force. All did not go well...
...Sept. 30, federal controls go off 80% of U.S. housing now controlled. The bill keeps federal rent controls only for 1) the 116 areas officially declared to have "critical" shortages, 2) incorporated cities, towns and villages whose local governing bodies request continued federal control. The critical areas contain only 1,150,000 units of rental housing; 6,000,000 other units will be decontrolled unless local action is taken...