Word: keyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...floor of the Senate this week, Ike's endangered bill got a sturdy boost from Illinois' Democrat Paul Douglas, who brought back from a recent fact-finding tour of Western Europe new reasons why the U.S. should push for freer trade. Douglas' key points...
Parliament Hill and the nation's headlines were gripped by jittery expectancy as artful Politician Diefenbaker parried all questions about election plans. Finally, with most of his key measures safely, on the statute books. Diefenbaker put an end to the suspense...
Salesmen were also instructed to get the ignition key of the automobile the customer intended to trade in. Some timid customers were not able to get their cars back, were forced to go ahead with the deal. Others recovered their keys and cars only to discover that good tires and battery had been switched for worn-out items. A long procession of witnesses testified to other ingenious ways in which they had been cheated. On the Rev. Bert D. Crouch, Caruso played all the tricks in his bag. Caruso's salesmen upped the price of Crouch...
...only six of 29 seats. P.L.P. tempers went higher three weeks ago over Governor Sir Oswald Raynor Arthur's annual appointments to the executive boards that help manage the islands. Negro appointees were in the minority and no Negro was named to the Development Board, which runs the key tourist industry. Hungering for an issue, the union and P.L.P. let the drivers' dispute serve...
...fall-off in business is emphasizing a question that has long bothered economists: How accurate are the dozen or more key statistics generally used to show the health of the U.S. economy? Last week the steel industry decided that its closely watched production measure (i.e. the operating rate compared to overall capacity) is an unreliable guide for the unwary because 1) capacity is constantly increasing, and 2) the capacity total is arbitrarily set each January instead of being increased as capacity grows. Thus last week's estimated production of 1,538,000 tons is rated at only...