Word: cancelations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called for a three-man Price Decontrol Board with the power to override OPA and cancel price regulations on any commodity. As a kicker, the Secretary of Agriculture could increase the price of farm products without consulting OPA. Under these terms, a clause extending OPA until June 30, 1947, was an invitation to its own wake...
Test a Theory. For years, Little's theories had to wait upon the practical necessity of keeping Special Yarns out of the red. Then the war came. Little found himself busy on war work (parachutes, jungle hammocks, etc.) until the Army suddenly began to cancel contracts in 1943. Carefully Royal Little weighed his chances, decided not to curtail production but to reconvert, expand and integrate...
Marie MacDonald, reasonably nicknamed "The Body," won a fight to cancel her contract with Hollywood Producer Hunt Stromberg, promptly said she was shucking the nickname, would "get by hereafter on my ability...
Marie McDonald, who claims exclusive rights to the nickname "The Body" (see cut), had contract trouble with Hollywood Producer Hunt Stromberg. She sued to cancel, but Stromberg brought to court a letter he thought proved that he and she were on fine terms. The letter opened "Dear Daddy S.," and informed him she had the measles. "They wanted to take pictures of my spots," she wrote, "but I drew the line. After all!" Signed: "The Spotted Body...
...House of Commons where the Government has only 126 seats against 119 for the combined Opposition, such an event would be extremely hazardous. The Cabinet could allow the intraparty fight to flare on the floor of the House of Commons, and risk defeat. Or it could cancel the tariff increases. Neither alternative was sweet...