Word: suits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enforce tough trade restrictions on Communist China- tougher even than on the Soviet bloc-specifically because Red China was a naked aggressor in Korea. Last week the policy was ripped up the middle when the British announced that they intended to relax their controls on Peking; Norway followed suit and so, probably, will others (see FOREIGN NEWS). The argument, as the British put it, was that it was "a vexatious anomaly" that Britain could not sell to Communist China what it could sell to Communist Russia, and that such inequity should be corrected. The net effect was that Britain would...
...opposition Republican People's Party, criticized the government for not raising wheat prices even more. The Freedom Party's Feridun Ergin pointed an inflationary moral: "This new price will not satisfy the farmers. In 1951 it took 400 kilos of wheat to buy a good suit of clothes. In 1957 it takes 860." Others predicted that the new wheat price increase would have to be financed by printing 60 million to 70 million pounds of new currency, thus further reducing the value of the Turkish pound, which already could be bought for 8? U.S. in Istanbul...
Detroit Tintype. Faulkner's advice was as starkly frank as his methods. He cautioned one student writer not to slip into a grey flannel suit and measure out his life in installment plans. "Do you want a piece of tin from Detroit and a $30,000 pile of bricks in the suburbs?" he demanded. "If you do, you should get a load on every night. Isn't that a hell of a goal?" Television and the movies have their uses. Faulkner conceded, since they are "a simple way to get a paycheck and have nothing to do with...
...happens to be a sadistic degenerate." After a few minutes, Wallace returned to the subject of the "apparently respectable" Chief William Parker in an attempt to lever Cohen into naming bribed politicians. That touched Cohen off again: "I'm going to give him much to bring a libel suit against me. He's nothing but a thief that has been-a reformed thief . . . This man here is as dishonest politically as the worst thief that accepts money for payoffs . . . He is a known alcoholic. He's been disgusting. He's an old degenerate. In other words...
...filed suit two weeks ago for $5,000,000 damages against United Artists and Essaness Associates on grounds that the advertising for the picture depicts him as an unregenerate drug addict...