Word: datedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...applicant for Miami's Channel 10. That was what canny Lawyer Porter had been waiting for. Smiling owlishly, he reached into a briefcase, produced a letter from a Congressman to the FCC requesting special action on a constituent's application for TV Channel 17 in Camden, N.J. Date of letter: March 30, 1953. Sender of letter: Representative Wolverton...
...Lakeland, Ga. school board's recent action against Teacher Minnie Lee Baskin. The Georgia gentlemen's reason for firing her [for letting one of her white students ride in a Negro bus] is undoubtedly the most shocking revelation of ignorance displayed in the South to date. But let's give Mrs. Baskin a break. She did not intend to promote interracial matrimony; she merely permitted a nine-year-old white boy to get home in time for supper...
...Syrians and Lebanese by all means short of outright force. And during the Casablanca Conference Roosevelt insisted on dining with Morocco's Sultan Mohammed ben Youssef, then subject to France, pointedly told the Sultan: "A sovereign government should retain considerable control over its own resources." Most Frenchmen date the Sultan's stubborn drive toward ultimate independence from that...
...biggest argument over proposed tax cuts is whether they should be temporary or permanent. Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul Douglas favors a temporary cut for six months or a year, with the termination date written into law. The argument for a temporary cut is that, though reinstatement of any cut might be necessary to fight inflation, no politicos would boost taxes with a presidential election coming up unless it were agreed on in advance. On the other hand, many economists and businessmen favor a tax reduction without any cutoff date, believe that a cut advertised as temporary beforehand might defeat...
While competing harder in Britain, the Reds are also wooing British businessmen with orders as part of their campaign to get the embargo on East-West trade eased. In London last week a Soviet trade mission announced one of its biggest catches to date. With Rustyfa, a combine of British companies, the Russians placed an equipment order of between $28 million and $42 million for one of the biggest tire factories outside the U.S. To be built at Dnepropetrovsk in the Ukraine, the plant will turn out 2,000,000 tires a year...