Word: bottomed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said ". . .the increased wage levels set the stage for rise in prices to come-and more inflation." This points a moral for organized labor, but will they stop grabbing for more? Hell no. Not until they have gone through the bottom of the grab bag. Then the only comfort they will have is a feeling of togetherness as they queue up in the soup lines. How long will organized labor pursue this madcap race that will end with the dollarless dollar...
...home in a wagon. When Jimmy was about ten, the family moved 20 miles northwest to Clinton, on the Wabash River. The boys chopped and sold wood, set out trotlines in the river, caught catfish, bass, suckers; some were sold, the rest were eaten at home. They scraped the bottom of the Wabash for mussels, boiled them in big oil drums, sold the shells to button makers at the rate of $6 a ton. They learned how to take care of themselves and to get what they could, any way they could...
...eldest son (younger sons usually leave home as soon as they are wed because they stand little chance of getting anything from father's estate after big brother is through with it). After him comes mother, who is the real ruler of the roost. At the bottom of the list cringes the daughter-in-law, or oyome...
...Canadian governments begin work on setting toll rates. Eastern businessmen, railroadmen, truckers and shippers (who originally opposed seaway, now favor it) have formed 22-state group to fight for high tolls, which would make Midwestern ports less competitive. But Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Association is lobbying hard for rock-bottom tolls in first years of the seaway to attract new business...
...Cheapest We Spend." On Tuesday night he summoned a ten-man, bipartisan group of House and Senate leaders to his upstairs study for an after-dinner conference, with no aides present. The President insisted that the mutual-aid authorization bill represented a rock-bottom figure for U.S. security. Next day he went even farther. About a dozen White House newsmen, straggled into the office of Presidential Press Secretary Jim Hagerty for the routine afternoon briefing. "Guess we won't need this," said one, indicating his note paper. Replied Hagerty: "I haven't anything to say to you today...