Word: freedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were arrested . . . without any lawful cause whatsoever . . . The accusations made against [them] are false . . . [Their confessions were elicited by the investigators] using impermissible means . . . which are strictly forbidden under Soviet law." On the recommendation of Beria's Ministry of Internal Affairs, "the arrested . . . have been completely rehabilitated . . . and freed from custody...
Pounds for Sale. Britain's action was welcomed more for its intentions than its actuality. Chancellor Butler raised from 44% to 58% the proportion of British imports freed from government restriction. This compares with a 75% trade "liberalization" expected of solvent nations by OEEC, and the 99% free trade permitted by Italy. Italy's open door actually threatens its own recovery: in the first two months of 1953, its imports from EPU nations exceeded its exports by $67 million. France is in direr straits and $625 million in debt to EPU; there is strong talk...
...still possible to think that society can get along without price controls. Last week the Eisenhower Administration's sixth decontrol order left the U.S. economy free of wage and consumer controls for the first time since the post-Korea freeze of January 1951. The latest order freed coffee, beer, home-heating oil, soybeans, animal feeds-everything except some nonconsumer products vital to defense: sulphur and sulphur compounds, iron and steel, scarce alloy metals, metal cans, machine tools. A few predictable price rises followed, but they barely rippled overall price indexes, which have been steady since the Administration began...
...then a figurehead, he said, "My only prerogative was to change the guard at the gate." Six days before V-E day, the British captured him at Bad Tölz near Munich. They held him in custody for several years, intending to try him for war crimes, freed him in 1949 on the ground of ill health...
...touched off an investigation of the Suffolk County jail and brought Kellerman the "Distinguished Service Award" of the New York Bar Association. But Kellerman's plan also had a less desirable byproduct: he was indicted for burglary. Last week County Judge Fred Munder set aside the indictment and freed Kellerman on the grounds that "an essential element of the crime of burglary was missing . . . there was no criminal intent on the part of the defendant...