Word: absorbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mahoney's method of setting things straight was quite senatorial. He introduced a bill. The bill would permit manufacturers to absorb freight charges and quote delivered prices, provided they were "acting independently," i.e., without collusion. The Senate, which has been trying to draft a bill for months to end the confusion, gave a sigh of relief at these plain words. It quickly passed the bill...
...trustbuster and friend of the Federal Trade Commission, wanted to permit freight absorption, a mainstay of the basing point system. But O'Mahoney said that the bill would only put into law what FTC has been saying ever since the Supreme Court decision, namely, that any manufacturer could absorb freight charges to meet a competitor's prices at distant points so long as there was no conspiracy to fix prices. What FTC had objected to was collusive freight absorption. Much of the confusion, he thought, had been caused not so much by the decision as by those...
...into the fastest, longest-ranged, high-altitude bomber the air arm has ever owned. Van Zandt implied that there was some kind of skulduggery behind the Air Force's decision to concentrate on the B-36. He also implied that there was a plot afoot by Consolidated to absorb its unsuccessful competitors (for airplane contracts) and that, after that, Symington would resign to become boss of the great combine. Symington ridiculed the charge. Said...
...enterprises are favored. There is no doubt that the Church also admits nationalization within justified limits ... But to make this nationalization the normal rule of public economy would be to reverse the order of things. It is public authority's function to serve private rights, not to absorb them...
...simply are for Russia!" roared Texas' Tom Connally. "What do you want us to do-just sit down and let Russia absorb the world and do nothing about it?" Equally annoyed but more restrained, Michigan's Arthur H. Vandenberg chided Wallace: "I cannot condone your conduct in going about insisting that your country ... is bent on world conquest in one form or another." But in two hours of shouted questions and evasive answers, Henry Wallace had one response which nobody challenged. Said Henry: "I think for her own interests Russia would be utterly foolish to carry...