Word: backes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great body of shoppers (ie., consumers), including the steelworkers, who go out to buy a pound of nails, a spool of barbed wire, or a pair of roller skates for the kids. The subsidized and politically favored minorities will be able to afford it, and the rest will sit back on their thin billfolds and think how wonderful it is to have a Great White Father who promises plenty for all and work for none...
...list was too impressive to dismiss. Next day the Navy's top test pilot appeared to back up Radford's claims. Captain Frederick M. Trapnell, 47, commander of the Naval Air Test Center at Patuxent River, Md., has probably flown more types of planes than any other U.S. pilot. He testified that standard Navy radar had no trouble picking up small jet fighters at 40,000 ft., that Navy fighters had made interceptions at that altitude by day and by night. Said Trapnell: "If you were to ride as an observer...
Even Money. The President flew back to Washington having obviously enjoyed himself, and went on about his business during the rest of the week with the air of a man determined to make the best of a difficult world. He reminded reporters gathered for his weekly press conference that it was his 200th formal meeting with them. He liked press conferences, he said, and though he occasionally got annoyed with their bosses, he thought most of the assembled newsmen were eminently fair...
Because the press reports of his first trial had been of "such unprecedented volume and in some respects of such extraordinary virulence," said Hiss, he thought there was no chance of getting a fair trial in Manhattan. To back up his argument, he produced photostats of 40 New York newspaper articles which he considered prejudicial to his defense and the affidavits of two of the four jurors who voted for his acquittal in his first trial. Both of them swore that they had received threatening letters and postcards, urging them: "Drop dead or go to Russia." Hiss wanted...
...Flanked by burly Hawaiian longshoremen and buried up to his pencil-sharp nose in flowery leis, Harry Bridges stood smiling on a ramp at Honolulu Airport one morning last week. "Well, Harry," said a dockworker, "we'll expect you back in 1951. We'll really give 'em hell then...