Word: tighter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...These are often witty and usually to the point. Evans may spend as long as 15 hours thinking them up for a given show. Samples of his clues and the phrases they are to identify: "A tight situation in the business world, and one that seems to be growing tighter year after year" (office party); "One place in which everyone is late"(obituary column); "A man who talks in someone else's sleep" (college professor...
...write a code was "futile," since few of the countries involved could agree on what press freedom means or even what the "public interest" is. Nevertheless, the code was halfheartedly voted. Binder and the British representative refused to approve it, along with the Soviet Union, which wants a tighter code defining the "main task" of the press as counteracting war propaganda and Fascist ideas. Next big step: a world conference of journalists to approve the code. If it is approved, it will still be only a "recommendation" for journalists, not a law. But any nation that wants to bat down...
...problem remains: how is one to avoid the abuses of the old law? Perhaps the surest solution is a tighter accrediting policy. Every school, college or university that received money from the government under the old law had to be accredited, and the fact that many of them were shady is more an indictment of the administration than of the payments method. But unfortunately, Representative Teague is obsessed by this problem, so much so that he is willing to risk distorting the program altogether. Unfortunately, it seems that many members of the House Veterans Committee share this feeling and that...
...part, the change of policy is merely recognition of the fact that arms production is woefully behind schedule. But the real significance is political. Arms production could be put on schedule by a tighter squeeze on civilian goods. That, however, would disrupt large segments of the economy, and in an election year, nobody, least of all Harry Truman, wants to do that. The President, in fact, is planning a $10 billion cut in the requested military budget for the next fiscal year (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...need a protector. Of the current military spending, small businessmen are getting 21% in prime contracts, 35% more through subcontracts, e.g., General Motors alone subcontracts to 12,500 other companies. Companies with fewer than 500 employees are enjoying record rates of birth, survival and growth. Next year a tighter squeeze in metal supplies might throttle some small businesses. But SDPA is supposed to die by statute, next June 30-just when its wards might really need...