Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...business leaders to get them to hold down prices and wages, but in recent weeks he has adopted a mild version of the technique. He pleaded for restraint through 2,200 personal letters to union and management chiefs. He sent a pointed message to Congress, prodding it to speed up action on his legislative proposals. This week he expects to go into New Jersey and Virginia to provide some purely partisan support for Republican gubernatorial candidates. He also plans a speech outlining new directions in Latin American policy...
...Bloc. By September, it was clear that Lindsay's free-spending, fully professional campaign was picking up speed. Few politicians were aware of just how much. Last week they were shocked when the respected New York Daily News poll showed Lindsay leading Procaccino by 47% to 31%, with 19% for Republican-Conservative John Marchi and 3% undecided. As everyone expected, Lindsay scored heavily among blacks, Puerto Ricans and well-educated, upper-income groups concentrated in Manhattan. The surprise was the mayor's strength in the populous outer boroughs, with their heavy concentrations of middle-income whites...
Psychologically more destructive than heroin-and now more available than marijuana-amphetamines are in many ways the most treacherous of all abused drugs. Despite the threat they pose, a recent survey by the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs revealed that 92% of the speed and pep pills in illicit traffic were manufactured by legitimate U.S. drug firms...
...quantities of amphetamines could be purchased in Mexico and smuggled back into the U.S. Rice admitted making $60,000 a year in amphetamines and said that he could not see "how U.S. manufacturers can send large amounts to small drugstores without knowing that illegitimate business is involved." Another retired speed entrepreneur testified that he easily obtained the ingredients for making amphetamines from wholesale chemical companies...
...François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier. In 1963, Voloshen offered to persuade Congressmen to speak against continuance of U.S. aid to Haiti, for a fee of $5,000 per legislator. A year later, for a retainer from the Haitian government, Voloshen said he would invoke his influence to speed $4,500,000 in U.S. funds to build a Haitian airport. Itkin reported the scheme to U.S. officials, and the funds were immediately frozen, depriving Voloshen...