Word: stripped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Liberalization of trade at home and abroad, to strip away masses of protectionist tariffs, duties and subsidies which have made French industry the most coddled in Western Europe. ¶ Agricultural reforms aimed at forcing the peasants to cut back production of uneconomic crops (e.g., wine, sugar beets for alcohol), and farm more efficiently. ¶ Overhaul of the maladministered cradle-to-grave social security program. <¶ An increase in real purchasing power, by linking wages to increased industrial profits. Inefficient plants must go to the wall; workers must be retrained and moved to new locations, especially in southern France where hydroelectric...
...Passed three anti-subversive bills that would 1) make bail-jumping* a felony punishable by five years in prison and a $5,000 fine; 2) strip convicted Communists of citizenship; 3) require subversive organizations to register with the Attorney General all their printing equipment, down to Mimeograph machines...
EGYPT, by an agreement with Britain which has outlasted riots and mutual insults, controls the flow of the Nile. She thus manages to support 17 million fellahin on a thin green strip of land along its banks. The Nile's surplus is dammed up at Aswan during the wet season, released during the dry. Now in process: a Nile "century" scheme to even out wet and dry decades and provide an ever-normal flow for irrigation by making Lake Victoria into the world's largest storage...
believes that the continental shelf is at least as rich in oil, acre for acre, as the narrow coastal strip of Texas and Louisiana. He predicts that within five years a vigorous drilling campaign in water up to 150 feet deep should find oil reserves of four to six billion barrels. Beyond the 150-foot line, the shelf should be just as rich, and no one knows in what depth of water the drillers can learn to drill...
Civil Liberties. In Baltimore, after police had arrested 100 people in a raid on a strip joint, Magistrate William Laukaitis threw the case out of court, announced: "The fact that a male applauds a female for taking off her clothes does not constitute disorderly conduct...