Word: probed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WINDFALL-PROFITS PROBE on FHA housing projects has hit a snag. The U.S. Court of Appeals upset a one-year jail sentence for ex-FHA Assistant Commissioner Clyde Powell, who okayed projects that netted builders some $500 million in unwarranted windfall profits. Though Powell refused to tell a federal grand jury how he banked an average $27,000 yearly from 1945 to 1953 (on a salary of only $12,000), the Appellate Court said the Government prosecutor "outrageously misrepresented" the facts in getting his conviction, ordered Powell acquitted in the name of "common justice...
...nuclear weapons game. Says State: if U.S. spending for defense were at the same rate as Russia's, considering the huge gap between the Soviet and U.S. economies, it would amount to $150 billion per year-almost four times the current U.S. rate. The U.S. wants first to probe the genuineness of the Russian desire to disarm, and secondly to be ready to argue the complex technical details if the desire proves real...
...what press experience he had gained was as Director of Publication for the Bell Telephone Laboratories. His only recent Government experience was as a censor for the Department of Commerce. By last week, newsmen's complaints about Honaman and the news brownout at the Pentagon prompted the congressional probe...
...comfortable living at it, although he never became the big oil baron that he might have been. Through the years, he never lost his urge to prospect for oil. When he was nearly 90, he was still setting out in his old model A with pick and shovel, to probe among the rocks...
Although the literature in the Commencement Advocate is not especially noteworthy, the editors have bolstered their magazine with short criticisms on a number of current paper-back books. These are too short to probe deeply, but they are long enough to give one some idea of the books criticized. They are a definite asset. One can only look with amazement at this sudden birth of Advocate energy...