Word: ax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ax Murders to Heart Mends. Elizabeth Gilmer got her biggest break in 1901, when William Randolph Hearst lured her to Manhattan. She carried a wad of "get-home money" in her stocking, for her first six weeks in the big city. But she stayed, to become the greatest sob sister of her day. From the Harry K. Thaw trial to the Hall-Mills case, no big murder was complete without her. In 1920 she tired of it, told her city editor that if she ever covered another murder it would be his, and flounced off to New Orleans to concentrate...
...general, ceilings were suspended rather than removed. One exception was cosmetics, which were finally exempted from price control. If there is an inflationary rise in prices, ceilings will be promptly slapped on again. Still under price control after OPA's ax-work: 1) 85% of all food items; 2) 80% of all industrial machinery and capital goods; 3) 95 to 98% of all consumer goods (in dollar value...
...publishers note that the author has "no political or military ax to grind." The statement suggests a very special kind of innocence on somebody's part. There is some straight history in the book, some of it of first interest. But not since the days of Quincy Howe's England Expects Every American To Do His Duty has anyone tried to tie a fancier assortment of knots in the British lion's tail. Stalin and Molotov could hardly have made a balder plea for the U.S. to ditch the British...
Among the foreign laborers who helped dig the Panama Canal was a hawk-nosed, angry-eyed Frenchman named Paul Gauguin. For about $4 a day he swung a pick ax, and earned enough money to go on to Martinique. Gauguin was beating a strategic retreat from the sun-spangled Seine of eight-Century French Impressionism to the blue and blood-red lagoons of Hivaoa in the Marquesas...
After a decade of high-priced le~al haggling, the U.S. Supreme Court let the ax fall on holding companies. This week. by a 6-to 0) vote* the Court upheld the "Death Sentence" clause of the Public Utility...