Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...interrupted him with a roar of laughter. Churchill glanced up, saw the joke, then concluded: ". . . for [his] full and careful statement." The Laborites were still in power, but the taste of the future was an acid one. No one thought that another election could be put off beyond next fall...
...Ming"-antipodean lingo for Prime Minister Robert Menzies-had made an election promise last fall to outlaw the Communist Party. The defiant Reds had called quickie strikes on the Melbourne and Brisbane waterfronts, tied up shipments of wool and meat abroad. A fortnight ago Ming's government moved toward a showdown by invoking the Emergency Crimes Act (first passed in 1914 against wartime sabotage), under which strike leaders could be jailed. "We will deal with Communists here once & for all," warned the Prime Minister. To waterfront strikers went an ultimatum: either back to work, or prison for union officials...
...scowl of the powerful North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. At its meeting three weeks ago, a special committee of the association recommended that Kansas City be dropped from its accredited list. One possible effect of such a blacklisting: Kansas City high-school credits would fall to a discount for college entrance. Quickly Kansas City appealed, said it was going to vote again on raising the school levy by 38%. The N.C.A.C.S.S. granted a three-month reprieve...
Says Picabia, who has been concentrating on dots in his Paris studio since last fall: "Ideas are like shirts. They get dirty after a while and then you have to change them." Toward serious art, he was as irreverent as ever: "I'd rather go to the Bal Tabarin than visit an art gallery. I'd rather have a seat in the Comedie-Fran-gaise than a seat in the Academe des Beaux-Arts...
Champ Carry, the hefty (6 ft., 220 Ibs.) president of Pullman, Inc. took an agonized look at his freight-car orders one day last fall. The big postwar backlog of freight-car orders had nearly disappeared, and Pullman's three freight-car plants had all but shut down. Yet Carry knew that U.S. railroads needed freight cars; more than half of the 1,762,239 cars in the U.S. are rattling antiques more than 20 years old. There was plenty of business if Carry could find" someone with the money to finance car buying for the cash-short railroads...