Word: winter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ottawa the Conservative government hastily warmed up some economic remedies. Immigration slowed to a trickle; only employable men and women with needed skills found it easy to get visas. The Labor Department stepped up its campaign to encourage winter construction ; fatter pension checks would soon go out to the aged and war veterans; and government cash advances on stored grain would help tide many a prairie farmer through a cold winter. Even so, economists privately gloomed that unemployment this winter would almost surely exceed the postwar high of 401,000, might reach 600,000, or 10% of the labor force...
GASOLINE PRICE CUTS are in the wind. With the winter season of reduced driving coming on, gasoline stocks are pushing 180 million bbl. v. 173 million bbl. this time last year, and refineries have already shaved ¼? off the price of gas at Gulf ports...
...they still correspond with home, but letters are few and widely spaced. Parents sometimes say the opposite of what they feel, and often adopt codes so they can tell their sons at Harvard what is really going on in Hungary. "Your friends" means "America;" "red ink" means "the truth;" "winter coat" means "changes;" "he's resting" means "he's in prison;" "the Square" may mean "secret police...
...significance of Zarubin's statement yesterday was that this is the first time that both the U. S. and the Russians have been in agreement on the principle of exchange. Until late last winter, the State Department had not been disposed to encourage universities' attempts to secure visiting Russian scholars...
Because of a lack of experienced managers, especially in winter track and basketball, the Undergraduate Managers' Council will in the future keep a file on experienced athletic managers to provide a source of ready replacements for varsity and assistant managers...