Word: probed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...growth of the U.S. economy, no major study of the country's monetary system has been undertaken for nearly 50 years. Early this year Congress turned down President Eisenhower's appeal for such a study, and almost every previous Congressional investigation has turned into a partisan political probe. Last week the Committee for Economic Development announced receipt of a $500,000 grant from the Ford Foundation for the first full-scale inquiry into U.S. monetary policies since the Aldrich Commission of 1908, which laid the foundation of the Federal Reserve System...
...Rackets Probe...
Camillien Houde's Montreal (pop. 1,595,000) has changed, and no one has done more to change it than slight, studious-looking Mayor Drapeau. A political unknown, he shot to prominence as prosecutor (1950-53) in a probe of Montreal vice in the '40s, when gambling czars ran up a $100-million-a-year business and bawdyhouses never closed. He proved police collusion with such evidence as a row of doors nailed to a wall so that cops could "padlock" vice dens without offending the underworld; 20 cops were later fined or fired. Only four weeks after...
...IMPORT PROBE will get going as soon as Government finds three top-level executives outside oil industry willing to conduct it. Former U.S. Steel Corp. Chairman Benjamin Fairless turned down chairmanship of commission that will determine what amount of low-cost foreign oil U.S. can buy without discouraging domestic exploration, production...
...England's summer tests temporarily. Although British and American legislators cannot, on their own, negotiate any permanent end to the tests, nor do more than try to limit the tests to those of purely tactical weapons, their discussions with the Russians can be important. The talks would serve to probe Communist intentions, while postponing further activity on either side of the Iron Curtain...