Word: tampering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Constitution: "He who does not contribute to the community may not receive from it"). Almost all businesses are confiscated by the simple device of convicting the owners of collaboration with the Germans. The Catholic Church remains Tito's strongest potential opposition. So far, he has not dared to tamper with it seriously...
...present price of 26? a pound, on the New York Exchange, this would increase margins 1½times.) Few knew whether this would hold down prices. But it raised the tempers of cotton patriots so high that they loudly threatened to liquidate OPA if it continued to tamper with the sacred right of cotton to rise as high as it pleased. Nevertheless, Stabilizer Bowles was stubbornly determined to check cotton prices. If increased margins did not work, ceilings would. No cotton patriot thought Bowles could win that fight. Oklahoma's cotton-loving Senator Elmer Thomas growled ominously...
Died. Daniel Willard, 81, last of the old-line, up-from-the-tracks U.S. railroad presidents, savior of the Baltimore & Ohio; in Baltimore. Farm-born Uncle Dan started railroading in 1880 as a tie-tamper, wound up bossing the giant B. & 0. for 32 years. Unlike most railroaders, Dan Willard got along with labor, was regarded as a liberal by his good friend President Roosevelt...
When Super-Nationalist Seyid Rashid El-Gailani this month took the Iraqi Premiership by coup d'état (TIME, April 21), Britain's great fear was that the new Government would let Axis fifth columnists tamper with the Mosul-Haifa pipeline, through which flows part of Britain's oil. If El-Gailani had had any such ideas, the British moved too fast for him. Into Basra harbor last week unexpectedly steamed a British transport and unloaded British Imperial troops, probably from East Africa...