Word: absorbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Delta's big (6 ft. 1 in., 210 Ibs.), 6 -year-old Collett Everman Woolman was all set to dump Captain Eddie off his lap. Woolman got together with Northeast Airlines, Inc.'s President George E. Gardner on a plan to absorb Northeast, which runs from New York through New England to Montreal...
...builders warned against too drastic a construction cut. Said they: "We consider it quite possible that the restrictions already imposed (i.e., higher down payments, less mortgage insurance) may reduce housing starts to a far lower figure [than 1,000,000]-perhaps as low as 600,000 . . . Until rearmament can absorb a far larger share of American production, any [such] cut in home building . . . would cause serious unemployment and other harmful dislocations of the economy...
Traders hoped that the market would soon steady, since it has shown remarkable ability in the past to absorb bad news...
Last week, while President Truman studied the bill, the Federal Trade Commission suggested a helpful way to settle the family fight. FTC asserted, as it had before, that it was already perfectly legal for businesses to absorb freight charges and quote delivered prices as long as they did not conspire to fix prices. Seizing this argument, President Truman at week's end vetoed the bill. "It is quite clear," he wrote, "that there is no bar [at present] to freight absorption or delivered prices as such . . ." Though his bill was killed, Senator O'Mahoney, a master of political...
...been prosecuted before on other matters after taking such assurances at face value, would probably think twice before testing Truman's promise. And such industries as steel, cement, etc., which were most affected by the 1948 Supreme Court decision outlawing the basing point system, had no need to absorb freight. They could sell all they produce f.o.b. the mill...