Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he first wet-blanketed installment sales last summer (TIME, Aug. 25), FRB Chairman Marriner Eccles warned that there would be "further dampening." Last week Mr. Eccles got out his wet blanket again and dropped it on the U.S. consumer. But, like most of Washington's anti-inflation gestures, this one really soaked nobody but the rich...
...Blanket Finish...
...stroke up, gained on Eliot, and edged into second place. At the finish, however, Adams nosed into second, half a length behind the fleeing Elephants and just a hair ahead of Winthrop. First place Eliot's time was 7:07, while fourth place Kirkland's was 7:10, blanket finish enough for any spectator...
Until these are put in effect, OPA's blanket ceiling (effective next week) would be a frost. But with or without them, it was sure to be a terrific pain in the neck to 1,800,000 retailers scattered throughout...
Wavell, Brereton, a few other officers flew by night to Ceylon, then on to India. Brereton had with him a pistol, a few faded tropical uniforms which he had picked up from Australians in Java, and a blanket roll. He called the blanket roll "Baby," and it was precious: inside was $250,000 in U.S. currency. The money was to have paid and supplied U.S. troops who never arrived in Java. Like many another such bankroll, it had been handed out by Chief of Staff George C. Marshall in Washington, on the premise that you never could tell...