Word: billings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carefully discussed the beauties of the Brannan Plan (high prices for farmers, low prices for workers, the bill to be footed by taxes). Republicans, who had all but forgotten how good the Truman act was, suddenly began clearing their throats, eyeing the future nervously and taking practice jogs to loosen their political muscles...
Last week, despairing of a legislative remedy, the U.S. Public Health Service turned to the next best thing: a nationwide educational program to encourage housewives to ask the grocer for iodized salt. When Ohio's Congresswoman Frances P. Bolton introduced a compulsory iodization bill, the Salt Producers' Association opposed it, protesting that it was medication by legislation. But the producers have assured Mrs. Bolton and PHS that they will use their advertising and publicity programs to promote the use of iodized salt. Mrs. Bolton, whose 22nd Ohio District is in the goiter belt, had taken up the campaign...
Retired National League Umpire Bill Klem, 75, smitten by his share of oaths and pop bottles in almost 50 years of calling decisions, was on the receiving end of a new kind of demonstration. At a Polo Grounds ceremony arranged by baseball writers, damp-eyed Bill Klem caught a broadside of cheers and gifts from fans, players and managers...
...Hands. Producers also moaned about the scarcity of good scripts. It was an old lament, but this time it rang true. Many established playwrights seemed to be between plays. Of shows hopefully announced for production so far, only a handful involved old hands: Terence Rattigan's Double Bill (a London import); a Maxwell Anderson-Kurt Weill dramatization of the novel Cry, the Beloved Country; Marc Blitzstein's musical version of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes; an S. N. Behrman adaptation called I Know My Love (with Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne); a new Cole Porter musical, Heaven...
...Bill Barbour has already set his gauges on bigger business radiations. Last week, with French bankers and industrialists, he set up Tracerlab's first foreign affiliate, France's "Saphymo" (for Société d'Application de la Physique Moderne), planned to start production overseas. For next year, Barbour, cannily aware of the atomic age's "uranium rush," already has a new product on the books: a portable radiation detector for prospectors...