Word: protection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...protect its claim, the Government put Lias into receivership in 1952, then decided Big Bill probably could run the federalized race track more efficiently than anyone else. Lias, who paid himself $65,000 a year as general manager, asked a modest $55,000 to do the job for Uncle Sam. Federal Judge Harry E. Watkins, supervising the receivership, scaled the request to $35,000. Of that, $15,000 is deducted for current taxes, $10,000 is applied to Big Bill's seven-figure debt to the U.S., and the remaining $10,000 is for Lias...
...South America, too, he has flown to conferences with resolutions against Communism and has flown away before the under-developed nations south of the border could talk about the trade and aid that will do more to protect the area than all his resolutions put together...
Belay That Yo-Yo. The Navy was still trying to protect the Marines on Guadalcanal and gain control of the South Pacific when Burke was assigned to command Destroyer Squadron 23, which operated with Rear Admiral "Tip" Merrill's cruiser Task Force 39. Typically, Burke first set about building morale, christening DesRon 23 the "Little Beavers" after a comic-strip character, and making a deal with Merrill's well-stocked cruisers for tons of ice cream. He ran a taut ship with an easy hand. One of the few public reprimands he ever handed out was when...
...accordion first came out of Strasburg. N. Dak. (pop. 800), his music was brash and noisy. A farm boy of Alsatian descent (he still has a faint Germanic accent absorbed from his parents), he learned to play "real loud" at barn dances. One of his fellow musicians used to protect himself from the Welk blare by putting cotton in his ears. Welk toured with small combos around Yankton...
...apply stringent curbs. Directed at the 39 U.S. companies that control two or more banks apiece, the bill would make them get rid of all their nonbanking interests, and would forbid buying new banking properties without approval of the Federal Reserve Board. Primary purpose of the bill is to protect independent banks from the interstate branch-banking competition they cannot match...