Word: showing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upcreep of the mid-1950s came to be tolerated as inevitable, he warned, it could inflict severe damage on the economy by eroding the confidence in the future that is essential to the workings of a free economy. By taking a stand for a balanced budget, the Administration would show that it intended to fight against price upcreep...
Neither were they cheered by the fact that Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson, who has enough trouble with the farmers, performed a kind of ritual sacrifice by gulping down a bowl of cranberries in public to show that he was behind the industry. In Wisconsin, Presidential Hopeful Jack Kennedy loyally tossed off a couple of glasses of cranberry juice, and Vice President Nixon cheerfully ate four helpings of sauce. (Afterward, agents seized a tainted Wisconsin batch...
Though the emergency would officially be over, some key temporary powers would be transferred onto Kenya's regular statute books, including permits for political meetings and restrictions on forming African political parties. Said Sir Patrick: "I hope experience will show me that I do not need the use of these controls...
...Last May it ordered Drug Research to stop claiming that Regimen could cause the loss of a predetermined number of pounds. After the FTC order, CBS carried Regimen spots for 13 weeks last spring and summer, then shed them. NBC continued them, mostly on Dave Garroway's Today show. But last week, 17 months after the FTC had complained that "those taking [Regimen] cannot lose weight without dieting," New York County District Attorney Frank Hogan seized a truckload of Regimen TV film commercials, books and financial records to determine if the ads were "false and misleading." NBC reluctantly went...
...around Colgate's toothpaste ingredient, Gardol, and the Three Stooges built an act around Polaroid cameras. On NBC's Ford Startime fortnight ago, Dean Martin greeted Guest Frank Sinatra with a cheery "What's this you're wearing-My Sin?" And on a Crosby-Sinatra show, one of whose comedy skits involved the rest rooms of a filling station, the script specified Union...