Word: nationalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strike illegal, and police quickly rounded up 350 Communist and Peronista labor leaders. Frondizi calmly boarded a DC-6 to keep his date in the U.S. By the time he arrived in Charleston, S.C., Argentina was at a standstill, except for troop-guarded public-utility plants, and the nation's oil workers had been drafted into the army...
Charles W. Medick, one of the nation's top table-tennis referees, smiles tolerantly when he hears the cry familiar to his trade: "Whatsa matter, you got no eyes?" Medick is blind, from an accident in infancy. But Medick, a 36-year-old Los Angeles X-ray darkroom technician, has been policing table-tennis players for a dozen years. "I'm sure I've made a bad call or two in my career," he concedes. "But I can't recall when...
Washington figures wise in the ways of newsmen are the most polished practitioners of the TV headline art. Ex-Teamster Boss Dave Beck first admitted his curious loans from the union on CBS's Face the Nation, thereby softening the effect when the loans were brought up later by the Senate's McClellan committee. It was on ABC's College News Conference that Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler announced that Southern segregationists might be forced out of the party...
...Department-store sales across the nation climbed 5% in January's third week, chalking up the third straight week of gain over 1958 levels...
Since then, as the gross national product has grown from $10 billion to $430 billion, prices have increased at a modest rate -an average of 2⅓% a year (see chart-). From 1897 to just before World War I, the average rate of increase each year was 2½% as the nation went through a period of peacetime prosperity. Yet from 1951 to 1956, when the gross national product bounded from $329 billion to $414.7 billion, wholesale prices increased only 1½% over the whole period, a remarkable stability indicating that "normal" inflation need not run away with prosperity...