Word: lid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Universal-International has made a cold-blooded contribution to the current catch of crime-expose pictures. "Raging Tide" fearlessly rips the lid off the world's slimiest racket--commercial fishing. And because this is a factual expose, it takes you right to the spot where dirty work is being done; the action takes place on a fishing smack in the Pacific...
...News Lid. The press corps has tried to cope with these problems of size and propaganda by narrowing the fields it can cover efficiently. Reporters concentrate on Capitol Hill, the White House, State Department and Pentagon. They look in on most of the other departments only when there is news breaking, make little effort to dig it up. Competition, in many cases, has given way to the "pool," where all reporters share & share alike, or to cliques that work for the defeat of outsiders...
...tightest clique is in the White House, where Press Chief Joe Short tries to maintain an air of impartiality to all newsmen. Actually, he slaps a lid on formal news announcements until he can reach Merriman Smith of the United Press, Robert Nixon of International News Service and Tony Vaccaro of the Associated Press, or call in substitutes from their bureaus. But even Joe Short can't shut off leaks. Louis Johnson, an expert on leakage, admitted that he had discounted all the reports that he was being fired as Secretary of Defense until he read an exclusive story...
...announcing a 14?-a-lb. cut in the price of natural rubber. GSA Administrator Jess Larson wants the tiremakers to pass along their savings, $40 million in the next three months, to consumers. At 52? a lb., rubber is now 47% cheaper than last December, when GSA clamped the lid on skyrocketing rubber prices by taking over the buying of all natural rubber...
...share of searching for the never-never land where science and common sense meet. It will be a country where "the greatest scholar [will] confess himself the equal of the child." No mind will be so "debauched with learning" that it will shun the simple skepticism that blows the lid off everything...