Word: frees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...snarled traffic with their jalopies, peddled tickets to pedestrians and motorists. Each afternoon they had a six-piece band jiving in front of the Book Nook store. Covering every angle, they even patched the hole in the stadium fence so that grade-school kids could no longer sneak in free...
...free" markets of the world, the British pound, which was devalued to $2.80 last September, was being unofficially devalued still further. The pound was selling for $2.47 in New York City, was off 6% from its pegged price in Paris, 11% in Brussels...
...Supreme Court had found the fledgling movies a vehicle of entertainment rather than, opinion, and had upheld state censorship laws as no violation of freedom. But only last year, in another opinion, the Supreme Court observed that the movies were clearly entitled to the Constitution's protection of free press...
...careless youth of the cinema, long before the first feature-length film, the U.S. screen was as free as the U.S. press. Then, in 1907, Chicago gave birth to movie censorship. Last week, after decades of kowtowing by a timid film industry, enemies of censorship made a strong bid to end the reign of censors now entrenched in seven states and 50 cities...
...Some people will remember Mr. Crawford as the militant industrialist who challenged the efforts of the wartime National Labor Relations to stifle free speech on the apart of employers," Cole said...