Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said the faithful, was to decontrol meat. If that was done immediately, the day might yet be saved. Will Clayton explained: a lot of cattle were in feeding pens. If the Administration immediately took off ceilings, those cattle would be sent on to market. But Mr. Truman had to act fast. Otherwise the cattle would be sent back to the ranges, to grow fat and ultimately fetch an even higher price...
...Truman had to act. Four nights later, he was on the radio...
This week the Democrats got ready to follow up. A House committee will begin an investigation to see whether there has been any violation of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act (the law covering campaign expenditures). The inquiry might serve to offset the same congressional probing of P.A.C...
...some of them haven't yet found that out. The traditional social democratic parties are old and tired and timid. . . . Everywhere in Europe, the Communists are the party with what driving power there is. They at least seem to know what they're trying to do. They act like men who really believe in their offer of salvation...
...invaders stirred Rio to action. With the flying hordes momentarily stalled by rain and cool weather about 90 miles south of Sao Paulo's great coffee plantations, the first act of Brazil's new Chamber of Deputies was to vote an emergency $97,380 for grasshopper defense. Last week a Brazilian military plane headed south from the U.S. with a two-ton load of flamethrowers provided in a hurry by the U.S. Gammexane, modern man's best bet in such warfare, was unobtainable, and the Biological Institute of Sao Paulo had to concoct its own insecticide right...