Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago campaigning Socialists called Winston Churchill a warmonger, and it rankled. Last week campaigning Tories seized on the Berlin Conference as proof that the charge was false-and also showed that in Britain wishful thinking about Russian intentions is not confined to Bevanites. The keynoter was handsome Sir David Eccles who, as Tory Minister of Works, got himself knighted for his coronation arrangements. Cried Eccles: "If it wasn't for [Churchill], there wouldn't be any talk with the Russians. You can feel the old man prodding those Americans, 'Get on with it, get on with...
...failed to report herself?" 151 said no, 115 said yes, and 24 were undecided. Those who said that they would not report a girl argued that they could never be sure she was cheating and they felt that such a charge was too serious to make without proof...
...admissions, furs, jewelry, purses, the 25% tax on long distance telephone calls, the 15% levy on fountain pens. He would leave at their present rate the federal taxes on cigarettes (8? a package), gasoline (2? a gallon), automobiles (10% of the manufacturer's price) and whisky ($10.50 a proof gallon).* Joe Martin said he did not expect the administration to propose any excise tax changes, but he hoped the White House would not oppose the plan he outlined...
...midst of all the international frothing and fuming, Latin Americans completely neglected to call attention to the best proof of their claim that coffee is simply moving on the age-old tides of supply and demand. The fact is that Latin-American coffee drinkers are in much the same fix as their North American neighbors. In the past two months, the price of high-grade coffee in Rio groceries has leaped from 81? to $1.07 a Ib.; some Brazilians have gritted their teeth and turned to a hitherto unmentionable beverage called tea. In coffee-exporting Costa Rica. President...
...proof, Olivetti cites the Marshall Plan. In four years, U.S. aid helped in crease industrial production 46%, raised the national income 36%. But workers' real wages increased less than 18%. Says Olivetti: "U.S. funds were channeled through the very monopolies and bureaucracy that had accepted Fascism and are responsible for the country's maladies...