Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Candy rationing, ended by the Labor government in a burst of optimism (TIME, May 2), was clamped back on last week. The planners had figured wrong: Britain was hungrier for candy than they had thought, and supplies on hand soon ran out. The new ration was the same as before: four ounces a week. To Britain's melancholy moppets that meant a couple of four-inch chocolate bars or a small bag of gumdrops...
...Dose of Free Enterprise. The turn may have come last winter when, with almost no dollars left, the Argentine state-trading system cracked up. Bruce insisted that there was nothing wrong that a small dose of free enterprise could not correct. Cautiously, the government moved to ease some state trade controls...
Until this year, television's friends & foes had generally agreed that radio's soap operas would not lend themselves successfully to the TV screen. As is often the case with expert guessers on television, they were wrong. Headed by the successful The Goldbergs, soap operas will surely widen their TV beachhead this autumn. But there are snags, nevertheless, for both soap operas and other radio serials. Some of the shows promised or projected, and their problems...
...think that labor has got to be just as big as industry in seeing that the right [bargaining] results are reached. If labor is not big enough, then we have got to fight the thing out. That is the way I look at bargaining. If they think we are wrong, they strike us, see? That is the way this thing should work. It is a hell of a good way to work...
Devil in the Flesh. France's latest cinematinee idol, Gérard Philipe, in a story of young love gone wrong (TIME, March...