Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...child. Said the local probation officer: "Mavis may not be of pure European descent." The Bothas were told that Mavis might be placed in "an institution for colored girls." For under South Africa's race laws, people who cannot prove their "pure European descent" are judged "colored," however fair their skin, unless they can show they have "habitually associated" with white persons. And Mavis had spent all her short life with the Zulus...
...three months ago the Bolivian government, keenly aware that the U.S. (the world's biggest tin consumer) would refuse to buy Bolivia's tin unless some fair plan was worked out to repay the stockholders, announced an agreement insuring compensastion. On sales of tin at prices between $1.06 and $1.21½ a Ib., 5% of revenues will go toward compensation claims; between 90? and $1.05. Bolivia will set aside 2½%, between 80? and 89?, 1%, and below 80?, nothing. Even at that, it will take investors a long time to get their money. Current New York price...
...Then he attacks with a ferocity and sureness which have caused many of the experts to label him the fluest one-punch boxer of our time. The man who beats him must be able to held Marciano, as La Starza did for six rounds, and carry a pretty fair one-punch convincer himself. Gosh, may be there's something in those satin jackets after...
...weekly column every Saturday, Publisher Dorothy ("Dolly") Schiff, 50, of the Fair Dealing New York Post (circ. 390,000), treats her readers to a breathlessly uninhibited account of how she has spent her time. Last week Publisher Schiff took her readers out to California. "In my last letter," wrote she, "I told you I was on my way to Los Angeles to spend my vacation with [my] grandchildren. And I promised to tell you about my adventures in Hollywood upon my return . . . When I wrote this I really had not expected to have anything special to report except possibly...
...built to carry the heavy truck, but only to ... carry the automobile, we could build tens of thousands more miles of improved highways than we are building today with the same amount of money. The truckers, however, strenuously oppose any efforts that will compel them to pay their fair share of modern road costs . . . There are very strong and well-entrenched pressure groups which are going to fight...