Word: make
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Good Company.The government asked for a court order to make the Lorain Journal stop all this. (Penalty for disobeying: fines and jail sentences.) Attorney General J. Howard McGrath emphasized that the suit did not abridge freedom of the press. Said he: "As the Supreme Court pointed out in the Associated Press case, freedom to keep others from publishing news is not guaranteed by the Constitution" (TIME, July...
...Russians are producing plutonium, they have really learned the atomic trade, perhaps with the help of German scientists. Once they accumulated enough fissionable material (U-235 or plutonium), it should not have been hard to make an atomic bomb. In quantities below a certain amount (the "critical mass," sometimes estimated at around 26 lbs.), neither material will explode. But when two such masses are brought together, forming more than a "critical mass," they explode spontaneously...
...prices, as much as 25% to clear them out in preparation for lower prices. But many of the new prices would not be anywhere near that low, and some would not change at all. Scotch distillers, who were already selling as much whiskey to the U.S. as they could make (3,000,000 cases a year), promptly upped their export prices 30% to cancel out the entire slash in the pound. Many another British maker of goods with a steady U.S. demand upped his prices anywhere from...
...apart from money and prestige (and unlike Sammy), Wald is a man who genuinely likes his job. Says he: "I want to make every kind of picture there...
Bouquet. In Walhalla, S.C., Etta Jackson won a suspended sentence after explaining to the court that the twelve half-gallon jugs of bootleg whisky dug up in her garden were placed there only to make the flowers grow better...