Word: heards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loudest cries of pain were heard in Britain itself. The government last week raised the price of nonferrous metals and of such humble objects as pots & pans. The first predictions of a 5% cost-of-liv-ing rise shot up to 10%. The trade unions were having Sir Stafford Cripps on the carpet, demanding wage boosts. The Tories charged that devaluation could have been avoided but for the Socialist government's mismanagement; Laborites replied that it was not so, asserted that they had devalued rather than cut Britain's welfare program and permit unemployment. Said one Labor leader...
...fertile Middle Eastern imaginations, the incident blossomed to vast proportions. "The Egyptian people," wrote the Cairo newspaper Al Misri, "were very surprised and annoyed when they heard of the bombing of Yemenite villages by the R.A.F. We don't know how Britain could do such a thing. She should be ashamed of herself." Last week, four be-daggered Yemeni arrived at Flushing Meadows to lay their case before .the United Nations...
Cleanup Week. When Vatican officials heard that Rome's professional pickpockets were already casing St. Peter's Square for areas of easiest pickings, they decided things had gone far enough. Last week a committee consisting of Rome's chief of police, chief of the carabinieri and a Vatican representative cleared all stalls from the steps of St. Peter's, banned all vendors, photographers and beggars from the square...
Obsessively shy, Heineman has always wrapped his affairs in such obscurity that few but the world's top bankers have ever heard of him. When in Manhattan, he lives in a nine-room apartment in a quietly elegant midtown hotel. Born in North Carolina, Heineman went to Europe at 16 and stayed there almost half a century building electric tramways and power plants (including Ebro) in a dozen countries, with U.S., British, Belgian, Swiss and French capital...
...even better than kind of entertainment was the artistic value of Ives' songs. I have heard Burl Ives sing a great many times both on records and in night clubs. In both cases it was impossible to realize the true clarity of his voice and the mellowness of his tone. Either there was surface noise on the records, or the sound of some drunken woman cackling...