Word: draconian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Massive Effort. Thanks to Macmillan's Draconian measures, Britain stood a good chance of staving off fiscal disaster, but for the British economy in general, the worst effects are still to come. Even with U.S. help. Britain will have to learn to live with no more than three-quarters of her normal oil supply. Ordinary motorists will get only enough gas to carry them 200 miles a month. Gasoline rationing is already hurting new-car sales. One thousand auto workers have been laid off, and another 56,000 have had their working hours cut. Macmillan also raised...
...Communist is irrelevant; nor should his present ideas be a deterrent, because an organization does not commit itself to any ideology merely by inviting a man to speak. If the ADA had allowed Hiss to speak, few would have taken exception. By suddenly donning the robes of Draconian vigilance, the ADA only appears hypocritical and foolish...
Land reform in Italy is a desperate human need and an almost insuperable problem. The Communists propose their usual Draconian solution: confiscate and redistribute large estates, eventually collectivize. The middleway Christian Democratic government of Premier Alcide de Gasperi rejects revolution for evolution...