Word: freedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nations, coaxed by the U.S., agreed to "liberalize" their trade with one another by abolishing quotas and slashing exchange restrictions. At first EPU set a modest 60% as the proportion of each nation's trade to be freed. Today most nations, except Britain and France, have "liberalized" their commerce by 75%. Italy and Portugal are at 100%, i.e., free traders within...
...derisively during the address.) The Senate promptly turned down three seizure proposals, then requested the President to use the Taft-Hartley law. Truman in his speech had made it clear that he was against the law, and would use it only if Congress urged him to, i.e., if it freed him of political responsibility for invoking it in this election year. Phil Murray was violently against it too. Like Harry Truman, he didn't want the law to get any credit for settling the strike...
...solved the problem by requesting the Defense Department to stop his pay ($19,541 a year) as of May 31. He went on the retired list as of that date, thus freed himself for full political activity...
...price of potatoes. As a result, farmers increased their plantings just to sell to the Government. Two years ago, horrified at the mountains of surplus potatoes, Congress junked the potato support program. Fearful of a price slump, farmers cut their 1951 plantings 20%, even though the demand for potatoes, freed from the artificially high prices of the support program, was increasing...
...rate of 100,000 a day, will sell it at retail for the first time this summer. The "trolley" can be removed from the tracks simply by pressing down on the tab used to pull it. Thus, any material that has been caught up can easily be freed...