Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...military government of General Mohammed Ayub Khan last week sent shivers of fear through the officials of the deposed administration. Describing his rule under President Iskander Mirza as "a benign martial law to assist the civil power clean up this mess," the General offhandedly announced that the maximum penalty for concealing food stocks is death. The results were awe-inspiring. Ex-Premier Malik Firoz Khan Noon, said the government, admitted that he was holding 3,000 tons of wheat in his private warehouse. Two other ex-ministers hurriedly told the government that they had wheat hoards of 6,250 tons...
...autopsies, did not know where a particular heart came from until afterward) had checked the aortas with equal care, found surprisingly that just as many Haitian as South Carolinian aortas were diseased. To Dr. Groom, this indicated that something besides diet was to blame, though he did not rule out the possibility that a dietary clue might yet be found...
SANDWICH WAR is over between transatlantic airlines trying to win economy passengers' hearts through stomachs. Lines that were getting around no-free-meal rule by serving fancy, meal-size sandwiches (TIME, April 21, May 5) agreed to serve same cold-buffet menu: meat, salad, cheese, bread, beverage...
...Walter Behlen, 53, a corn-belt Edison. Inventor Behlen, a man given to loud sport shirts and a pink Cadillac, made a gross profit of exactly $194 his first year in business in 1940; last year he earned $3,309,000 by ceaselessly following a simple inventor's rule: "Ideas are a dime a dozen-it's doing something with them that counts...
Rubenstein stated that no previous drive has ever resulted in more than 1,000 donations. At least 1,600 pledges are necessary to guarantee a yield of this size, he noted, since a 40 per cent discrepancy between pledges and contributions has been the rule in the past...