Word: lid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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STATE-RUN INDUSTRIES in France will lose 39% more this year than in 1955. Because government keeps lid on prices they can charge to hold down living costs, nationalized railroads are expected to lose $234 million, coal mines $40 million, gas utility almost $16 million, electricity companies $14 million, Paris subway and bus lines almost $34 million. Exception is state-owned Air France, which is expected to earn...
WHILE the presidential campaign was still in its infancy, Democrats Harry Truman and Adlai Stevenson decided to blow the lid off the issue of corruption in government. "Racketeers," cried Truman in describing the members of the Eisenhower Administration for the edification of fellow Democrats at the Chicago convention. Far from disavowing Harry's reckless wording, Nominee Stevenson last week charged that a "contagion of Republican misconduct and corruption . . . has marked the Eisenhower Administration from start to finish...
...office the same classically simple concept of her duties that had guided her during earlier terms as an Oregon legislator and Portland public-utility commissioner. "Whatever the law is," she said, "it should be enforced impartially." Under trim, precise Lawyer Dorothy Lee, it was. Portland slammed the lid down on gambling and vice, took long strides toward solving its traffic and slum problems, overhauled its faction-ridden police bureau...
...Four men had pulled up in a car before a dingy boarding house in Maida Vale, crossed the sidewalk in broad daylight, entered the house and pumped lead into a sleazy race-track gambler. "Police believe," reported the conservative Daily Telegraph, "that the murder is gang war with the lid off . . . The razor and knuckle-duster gangs have turned to firearms." The Daily Sketch wondered: "Should the police now be armed?" Few London crime reporters could resist comparing their city to Chicago...
...judge at Slansky's trial, and two Cabinet ministers. The conference closed on a note of repression. Newspapers were warned against "incorrect ideas," and "reactionary elements among students" were threatened darkly. Dozens of students were picked up by police. The Czechs were laboring hard to keep the lid...