Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 1946 walkouts had cost the nation 107,475,000 man-days of work-a record loss. Nevertheless, beamed the Department of Commerce, the great U.S. consumer had gone on a record spending spree. His 1946 bill: $127 billion-$900 per person...
Last February, Joe Curran was sold a bill of goods. The name of the goods: the Committee for Maritime Unity. From a trade-union point of view the idea seemed fine; C.M.U. would be the united front of all maritime and longshoremen unions. Ham-handed Joe Curran took his big East Coast National Maritime Union into the group, lined it up with five other much smaller seamen's unions and Harry Bridges' big West Coast International Longshoremen...
With a no-defeat record behind him, Allen was understandably anxious to duck out before something might come along to spoil it. But for all his hurry, he left behind at least one work for the new Republican Congress to remember him by-a bill to simplify and reorganize the multi-unit RFC, strip it of its wartime and emergency powers, and provide for its eventual liquidation...
...appoint lanky, hard-working John Duncan Goodloe III, RFC's general counsel, and one of RFC's top hands, as his successor. A Harvard law graduate and a veteran of 15 years in Government, Goodloe had topped his RFC career by drafting the Corporation's reorganization bill. That job was enough to convince George Allen that Goodloe should be his successor. And an Allen recommendation was still gilt-edge with Harry Truman; Goodloe...
...musician, Bill Karzas' success is partially due to his knack for picking bands people like. Says he : "I know good music when I hear it, just the same as I can't cook but I know good food when...