Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Property Right. In Lewes, England, dismissing assault charges against Norman Hyde, who had slugged a fellow pub patron for trying to down his beer, a judge ruled that "drinking another man's beer is the unforgivable...
...Finances are strained. The Daily Worker, long in difficulties, this month pub-llished a particularly desperate-sounding appeal for money, last week announced that it got results (see PRESS). Organizations which helped finance the party (e.g., the International Workers Order, an insurance concern headed by Artist Rockwell Kent) are being put out of business...
Martin started to backtrack, trying to design the simple radar that might have been developed in the early days if military money had not been so plentiful. He consulted continually with Collins (usually in a pub), and whenever he suggested adding another tube, Collins complained that he didn't want a cheaper radar, he wanted a really cheap one that would land planes effectively...
...street and in the pub still seems to like Ike and wonder who this chap Stevenson is. But the Laborite Daily Herald says: "Ike has become a pitiful pawn." The thoughtful Economist, which backed Eisenhower a few months ago, last week worried about Ike's association with Taft, wondered whether "Eisenhower, the politician, is a different man from Eisenhower, the architect of a united victory." But, added the Economist, "may the best...
...them from the windows. They toured the Tower, St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey ("Is this really the coronation throne? Kinda beat up, isn't it?"), carefully watched out for cars on the "wrong side" of the street, crowded into Dirty Dick's Fleet Street pub and the Prospect of Whitby on the Thames. Wherever Americans went sightseeing, they saw that reassuring sight-other Americans...