Word: welling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keeping to the right. I doubt whether even a big Tory majority could cause such a change. Maybe the picture shows a narrow, one-way street, and the cyclists are merely Labor voters walking their machines against the traffic to demonstrate that freeborn Britons can go where they darn well please in their own country...
...never been a union dedicated to featherbedding. By trying to make the changes in a sweeping manner, the steelmen had solidified labor into a newly militant front and lost much public support. Like many a controversy based on principle, the differences were far more apparent than substantial, might well yield to settlement if both sides would make the most of a cooling-off period to try a new approach...
Ideally, U.S. policy aims toward a free world of independent nations bound together in growing prosperity by a thriving, dependable free trade. Realistically, the U.S. has poured billions overseas to rebuild the industrial nations and finance the undeveloped, while many a rebuilt, well-financed country has maintained tariff walls against U.S. goods or tight controls on dollar purchases. Samples: Britain still limits or bars a long list of U.S. goods ranging from construction machinery to comic books; France excludes U.S. bourbon while buying British Scotch; Japan requires licensing for 70% of her imports, will not let Japanese businessmen buy some...
...moved to bring idealism and realism into line, warned the well-to-do that it was time to bring down the barriers and get on with the trade-or else...
...Cover) Behind wailing police sirens, a cream-colored Cadillac sped into Abbeville, La. from the dusty airport, rolled on past the white-columned courthouse, and pulled up in front of the Candlelight Restaurant. Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington unfolded his long (6 ft. 2 in., 183 lbs.), well-tailored frame from a rear seat and, ringed by Louisiana politicos, strode inside to start shaking hands. As photographers flashed away, Abbeville's Mayor Roy Theriot bounced forward to get his picture taken with Symington and Louisiana's own Senator Allen Ellender. "I'm going to pose with...