Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coal-steel cartels. The U.S. proposed a compromise. Its chief point: let the German mills keep ownership of enough coal mines to cover 75% of their needs. When the Germans balked, U.S. High Commissioner John McCloy threatened that if the Germans scuttled the Schuman Plan, he would impose even tougher anti-cartel measures. That...
...late nights were tougher on the Socialists. Most Tories have rooms or small apartments near Westminster, but many Socialists must travel considerable distances to their homes or sleep sitting up in chairs until the next session...
...Chief items: 1) a hike in the minimum down payment on most consumer goods from one-fifth to one-third, on automobiles from one-third to one-half; and 2) a cut in the maximum credit period for installment buying from 18 to twelve months. The new restrictions are tougher than those imposed in the U.S. (where installment payments may extend through 15 months). They are also tougher, in the case of automobiles, than the Dominion's own rules at the height of World...
...minutes or less. McNiff and his staff have been lenient on this, but it shouldn't become official policy. Nor should Lamont lower its fines; if anything, it should raise them. The Council wants the library to case up on students when actually Lamont should be a little tougher...
Questions pour in at the rate of 2,500 a day, and all of them-even those used on the air-are answered by mail. About 40% of the queries deal with local subjects or can be readily handled by thumbing through a standard reference book. The remaining, tougher 60% are forwarded to The Answer Man's Manhattan headquarters, appropriately located across the street from New York City's 5,000,000-volume Public Library, to be solved by 50-year-old Producer Bruce Chapman, his 40-man staff and a postal panel of 20,000 obliging experts...