Word: sectioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Khrushchev visit to the U.S. is a monstrous affront on the part of the President to almost any horizontal or vertical cross section of American citizens. It is an insult to our intelligence to be asked to accept this visit for the fatuous reasons advanced. If this visit will lead to a peachy-dandy world peace, then I'd like a top job in the State Department...
...Times consists of more than news columns, and its Sunday magazine appears heavily loaded with articles by "liberal" correspondents (including a number of the more literary Senators). It has been charged that its Book Review section often ignores or blasts "conservative" books of high quality, and that its "News of the Week in Review" (after the first two pages) often shows a decidedly "liberal" slant...
...boards jurisdiction over small-business-labor disputes now rejected by the National Labor Relations Board, thus strengthening the Senate's halfway attempt to solve the "no man's land" problem. ¶ Accepted the House's stronger ban on blackmail picketing, but beat down a severe House section that would effectively prevent almost all picketing in advance of a plant's NLRB election...
Both were hanging around the corner of 72nd and Broadway with a bunch of Puerto Rican toughs when the word was passed that white kids in the Clinton area had been beating up Puerto Ricans in the Clinton section (when in fact both whites and Puerto Ricans had been living together there in comparative peace). It was all the excuse they needed for a rumble. The victims in the Clinton playground knew neither their attackers nor the reasons for the attack...
...problem. Since they were issued in March (and nearly 200% oversubscribed), the Preussag shares have risen in value from $34.50 to $59.50. Public interest in stock purchasing has risen to such a pitch throughout Germany that the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung recently toured the schools in a poorer section of town, found 14-year-olds who knowingly employed stock market terms. Asked the newspaper: "Is the stock market becoming the soccer field of tomorrow?" In Holland, the Heyn chain of 360 grocery stores gives out coupons instead of trading stamps, and the coupons can be turned in for special debentures...