Word: promptness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower bows to the noisy and parasitical high-tariff lobby. The commission which he would have Congress appoint for a year's review of tariff policy could arrive at basic and practicable conclusions after a conference with any schoolboy who has studied elementary economics. Europe is crying for prompt removal of American tariff barriers so that, by earning dollars, she might ease out of the American-aid strait jacket...
...advised as the layman in serious pain who doses himself with home remedies. Any prospective witness who is doubtful about the desirability of answering questions should feel that it is essential for him to obtain the professional advice of a lawyer, to whom he makes prompt and full disclosure of the facts...
...more of their rights. Recently vandals, protected by Perón's police, burned Buenos Aires' famed old Jockey Club and destroyed priceless art treasures. Some of the club members demanded that the club close down its race track in protest. Cooler heads argued that this might prompt the government to nationalize horse racing. As a result, the board of directors adopted a "realistic" position, trooped dutifully off to assure the Minister of Interior that the club would not close its track. Last week Perón's Congress nationalized horse racing...
With one of the volunteer's arms bared and a rubber tube wrapped tight around it, a technician slipped a needle into a vein and drew out 5 cc of blood. The donor's name and address were noted and he was promised a prompt report by mail. Of the first day's 415 samples, 388 were negative; the rest were positive or doubtful. To each of these 27 subjects went a letter asking him to return for further testing or to see his own doctor and have him send the Health Department a report. After...
...Orleans' Mayor Morrison, whose police department was under fire, sided with the TP, whacked the Item for its "scheme ... for the obvious purpose of attempting to produce a scandal." But the Item had the last word. The police department fired Patrolman Brackman for failing to make a prompt report of the bribe offer. And last week the bar-brothel where the baby had been found lost its liquor license. Crowed Tommy Stern's Item: "The Picayune complained . . . that the revenue department investigation 'benefited the Item to the exclusion of other media of public expression.' Cleared...