Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...domestic front, which is closer though not less important to Britons, Bevin's counterpart is Herbert Morrison. To him goes the credit and the blame for what Labor did and did not do to raise the lives of Britons above the level most of them had come to consider intolerable. The British electorate, being human, would judge the Labor Party by how much food and clothes and fun Herbert Morrison managed to get for them, rather than by how loudly Ernie Bevin's voice boomed out in international councils...
...Army and Naval Intelligence services, and the NKVD secret police each had its system. The fourth was a political ring under Peter G. Goussarov, who rated as a second secretary in the Embassy; the evidence showed that he had "authority . . . on the level of an ambassador." The fifth and most active unit was the Military Intelligence network bossed by Colonel Nicolai Zabotin (TIME, March 11). Canada's Communist (Labor Progressive) party furnished the rings with recruits. Their pay was small, usually only $30 to $100 for a piece of information...
...priced hogs remained unsold one day at Chicago's Union Stockyards and wholesale meat prices started down, though they were still well above OPA ceilings. Retail prices, which had generally been in the black-market stratosphere, started down too. By week's end, they were beginning to level under June's black-market price in Manhattan and other big cities-but they, too, were still well above former ceilings...
...imported bosses since joining Tass in 1929 He speaks little Russian, cables his stories in English. Tass sends 7,000 to 8,000 words a day about the U.S. to Moscow; its report is light on crime, scandal and feature news, heavy on production figures, U.S. culture, high-level politics, anything critical of the Kremlin...
Ceilings on rents have already been re-imposed at the June 30 level. Live stock and grains, along with all their derivatives, are ceiling-free until August 20. Poultry products will remain so unless undue rises are noted by the control board...