Word: 80th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ogden, Utah celebrated the 80th anniversary of the day California's Governor Leland Stanford helped drive a golden spike into newly laid tracks at nearby Promontory Point, thus completing the nation's first transcontinental railroad...
...union had voted that all officers should take a non-communist affidavit. This was not a meddling 80th Congress but the rank and file of our 14,000 members in several states. The aforementioned officers refused, so we had to summon a council. Despite 81/2 hours of filibuster by Henderson and a fat gentleman, from the clothing workers union I believe, the delegates voted that all members of the council should take the non-communist affidavit or get. They got. Next day they called our charter, as the International could do legally, and our union ceased to be a democratic...
...lowly potato was costing the U.S. taxpayer more & more. Last week Agriculture Secretary Charles F. Brannan reported that the Government's wartime potato price-support program, kept alive by the 80th Congress, already had cost $200 million for the 1948 crop and would cost more before the year's output is disposed of. What's more, the Government's mass buying of 1948 potatoes (now at a husky $2.90 to $3.50 per bushel) was keeping prices up in the grocery store, so taxpayers were getting socked twice for every potato they bought...
...Republican 80th Congress, Jenner and his fellow isolationists had felt duty-bound to tone down their opposition to party-and bipartisan-policy. With the Democrats back in control, their coats were...
Professor Harris and Slichter disagreed last December on whether industry's profits were too high, when they testified before a joint sub-committee of the 80th Congress...