Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scandals of 1951-52, it might have been thought that Truman & Co.'s Bureau of Internal Revenue had been mined out as a source of high-grade show material. But last week a House Ways & Means Subcommittee headed by New Jersey's Robert W. Kean stuck an investigative spade into the same rich lode and dug up not only a fresh scandal but a new feature character...
...French economy in 1953 is stuck between feudalism and anarchy. Potentially. France is the richest farm country in Europe, yet she imports $200 million more food than she exports. Her farms are tinier and less economical than they were in 1930. French industry seems to operate on an inverted system of Malthusianism, holding down production to keep pace with the population. When demand falls off. firms cut their output, instead of reducing prices to stimulate the market...
...Rome's hottest day of the summer, and a dismal day for Premier Alcide de Gasperi. The Monarchists and neo-Fascists stuck stonily to their decision to throw all their votes against him. His long-time allies of the center, the Liberals, Social Democrats and Republicans, would not give him even one of their 38 votes. The Red Socialists of Pietro Nenni and their friends the Communists sat in the Chamber of Deputies behind smug smiles of triumph. "Italy." said owlish Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti placidly, "will certainly and inevitably pass through the Communist experience...
...born George Stoddard made an impressive record in his seven years at Illinois-at least on the surface. Since 1946, the enrollment has doubled to nearly 23,000. Stoddard set up a new department of preventive medicine and public health, institutes of public affairs and labor relations. But he stuck his neck out often...
...pull out?" To this and other questions Brubaker gets simple answers: "That's rubbish, son, and you know it. All through history free men have had to fight the wrong war in the wrong place. But that's the one they're stuck with . . . Nobody ever knows why he gets the dirty job. But any society is held together by the efforts . . . yes, and the sacrifices, of only...