Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Resident General Gilbert Grandval, sent from Paris to bring peace and a fair deal to restive Moroccans, acted like a man with no time to lose. The minute his plane stopped at Casablanca's airstrip, he jumped down from the plane, too impatient to wait until the ramp was shoved into place. In his first week, he fired nine of the protectorate's top French officials, "for essentially psychological reasons"; they were competent, he explained, but identified with the old, unpopular order. To Moroccan cheers, he declared a general amnesty for Bastille Day, freeing 77 political prisoners...
...legislative approval. Its main provisions were those that in general prevail throughout the world: 1) a 50-50 split of profits between government and company, 2) commitments aimed at requiring the company to make discoveries fast, and 3) assurances that local oil needs will be met first at fair prices...
...FAIR-TRADE BATTLE is splitting state supreme courts. In Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, courts last week ruled in favor of fair trade (on cases involving General Electric and Bulova Watch Co.), thus making six (others: California, New Jersey, New York, Delaware) that have upheld the constitutionality of the 1952 McGuire Act. Five other state supreme courts (Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Nebraska), plus some lower courts, have ruled against fair trade...
...FAIR-TRADE LAWS will not be an issue at this session of Congress. Despite a recommendation by Attorney General Herbert Brownell's antitrust committee that federal price-fixing laws be abolished (TIME, Sept. 13), no bill has been introduced...
...electric terminals like any other bat tery, and when it is exposed to bright sunlight it generates about half a volt. A square yard of the batteries would light a 100-watt lamp or run an electric fan. A few acres would give enough power for a fair-sized town...