Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bourguiba even set a time limit within which Britain and the U.S. must agree to support Tunisia against France, "to prevent eyes from turning toward the Communist bloc or other countries." Announcing that he had canceled Tunisia's March 20 Independence Day ceremonies "because we are no longer convinced we are truly free," Bourguiba declared: "March 20 is the fatal day. By then we can see what direction we must take. If we cannot find the support of the West, I will be obliged to say that I have made a mistake...
...Post Office Department along toward paying its way in the world, the Republicans immediately afterward broke ranks in voting on another part of the same bill. The issue: a last-ditch amendment offered by Kansas' Senator Frank Carlson, ranking Republican on the Senate Post Office Committee, to limit a postal pay raise to 8½% (v. 12½% in the bill and 6% recommended by the President). The limitation was snowed under 54 to 29 when 15 Republicans, many regular Eisenhower supporters, deserted to the Democrats. Net result: the ungainly bill lumbered toward a conference with the House with...
...Korean war. While the prices of the raw materials Britain needs have tumbled, the prices of finished goods have not. The pound has become so strong that the government last week lifted restrictions on pound notes: any amount may be brought into Britain, instead of the previous ?10 limit. Unemployment has risen but is only 1.9% of the labor force, not enough to bring a shift in the government's tight credit policy. ¶Italy's gross national product increased more than 5% last year, is expected to continue to climb; though the industrial production index in January...
...debut as a dramatic actor, he chose Material Witness, by Henry (Time Limit) Denker, and the title role of an average householder who sweated out 50 dreary minutes in fear that gangland killers would learn of his presence at one of their crimes. The show was just another dipperful of clabber out of Kraft Theater's antique churn. Berle played the shallowly written role with egregious self-control. Conscious of his dignity as a TV elder statesman, he liked the part because it was, said he proudly, "something unbrash, unflippant and unaggressive-I wanted to get away from...
...weeklies, twelve in all (total circ. about 10.4 million), are the Cinderellas of postwar publishing. The bestsellers charge some of the highest space rates in Britain (up to $10,500 for a four-color page) and have to turn away business to keep the magazines down to manageable size (limit: 80 pages). The top rivals. Woman (circ. 3.462,488) and Woman's Own (circ. 2.556,130), alone have quadrupled circulation, last year boosted their prices to fivepence (6?) without flinching...