Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the 1850s, when local option laws prohibited the sale of liquor to "any man against the known wishes of his wife," Kansas had made it tough-but not impossible-for a man to get a drink. By 1880, Kansas drys decided that they could trust neither the bartenders nor the wives, adopted an amendment flatly prohibiting the sale or possession of liquor...
...member of a wealthy chemical trust family, Poulenc is one of few French composers who "escaped" the Paris Conservatoire: at entrance age (18), he was in the French army in World War I. He emerged from World War II France's most popular composer, partly because there was no political blemish on him. He holed up on his 17th Century Vouvray estate (where he also makes wine), refused to play for the Germans, and stalled them off on the production of a new ballet, Les Animaux Modèles, by telling them repeatedly: "Ah, it is not yet finished...
...Crossley poll (which predicted a Dewey victory of 49.9%) had discovered an upsurge for Truman in the campaign's closing days, but underestimated it. In a statewide poll just before election, the Chicago Sun-Times found a shift to Truman (but did not trust it enough to print it) which indicated a 50.05% victory in Illinois (the actual vote was 50.68%). Said Editor Richard Finnegan: "This has taught us a poll is no good unless it follows the voter right up to the booth...
...Apparently by coincidence, the Russian news paper Meditsinsky Rabotnic (Medical Worker) chose last week to attack U.S. bread, praise Soviet bread. It bad-guessed that the U.S. Government would not forbid treating flour with such harmful chemicals as Agene because "such a way out is unsuited to the trust-owners - real bosses...
...deal, they charged, violated the anti-trust laws; the department will press its charges against Alcoa. Washington wondered if Justice would now prosecute...