Word: abouts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clanging Plowshare. Republican Kline had made no secret of his opposition to Brannan's plan, with its proposal for high prices on the farm, low prices in the grocery store, and Government subsidies to pay the difference. Kline favored instead a "sliding scale" parity program with a minimum of...
Jim learned a lot about transportation, just the same, as he shuttled from railroading to one small trucking job after another, and he spent his spare time and money on books-the Bible, Shakespeare, and everything he could get on transport. By the time he had reached middle age, ambitious...
ECA, it seemed, had done some checking up on Jim's application blank, discovered Jim's little embellishments and charged him with making fraudulent statements. It wasn't that Jim hadn't done a bang-up job all the way. It was just about like Jim...
The Celilos took a suspicious view of the white man's benevolence. Rheumatic, 86-year-old Chief Tommy Thompson protested that it would be bad medicine to move; others grumbled that the wind wouldn't blow right for drying their fish. As for sanitary conditions, Red Cloud Towner...
"After you'd been chased by the Government for 15 years, brother, you'd be thin too," cracked Hallinan. That was good for a laugh. But as things stood in the fifth week of trial, the defense did not have much else to laugh about.