Word: decontrolling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...opportunity to play on the fears of a whole rent-controlled generation who remember the old tales of wicked landlords, Laborites plastered the walls of North Lewisham with ominous broadsides (CAN I LOSE MY HOME? CERTAINLY . . .). The government's answer, as officially phrased by Candidate Farmer, is that decontrol is the "logical first step in getting rid of the housing shortage." The Tories' main hope lies in getting the bill passed as soon as possible to prove its long-range benefits...
...other candidates standing in the little election had to face a more immediate problem. With election day only a week off, Farmer admitted under questioning last week that, if elected, he would vote against at least that clause of his party's bill which promises complete decontrol of 800,000 higher-priced dwellings...
...Leader after leader rose to explain what one protesting resolution called "the government's apparent inability to reverse trends resulting from Socialist maladministration" and to "use its strong majority to implement more forcibly its election promises." Minister of Housing and Local Government Duncan Sandys pledged that he would decontrol 10 million rent-controlled houses. Chan cellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan delivered a lengthy appeal for his plan to take Britain into a new European free-trade area (TIME, Oct. 15). But by far the most ringing response to the rank and file's complaints came from Lord...
...equitable rents after the New Year. The resolution read: "That the City Manager be requested to appoint a Fair Rent Board consisting of leading citizens representing both landlords and tenants in order to bring the strongest influence to bear, to insure full justice to all in the process of decontrol...
...Germans he also talked sternly. When they complained of occupation pressures, or of the slowness of Allied decontrol, he stopped them with one indignant question: "Who do you think won the war?" He preached: "We must part with concepts of the past. When you fall from the heights as we Germans have, you realize it is necessary to break with what has been. We cannot live fruitfully with lost illusions. I do not believe in fairy tales...