Word: comfortable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...C.I.O. members of WPB's labor advisory committee promptly staged a counter-revolt, charging that their friend Libbey was fired "for telling the truth," that "vested interests" had blocked the steel program, that the interests were "given aid and comfort by certain dollar-a-year men." But everyone else, including Frederick Libbey, seemed pleased. Said he, as he started to look...
...adding two & two the nation's press and politicos tried to find rhyme & reason in primaries throughout the country, in order to find aid & comfort for November elections. But the result was a confused equation...
...special movies for those on swing shifts, special nightclub parties starting in the cool of the morning. For workers who want them, there are welfare services: group and hospital insurance, medical attention; in at least one California plant, profits from the concessions pay the hire of a minister to comfort the sick and bereaved...
...Government pocketbook. Instead it pays $145,000 in real-estate taxes. If these taxes were lifted, a 5% increase in box-office revenue would be enough to put Manhattan's creaky opera company into the black. As it is, the Metropolitan's bookkeepers may well take what comfort they can from the practical philosophy of the Met's first board chairman, James A. Roosevelt (uncle of Roosevelt I). Said he: "We never expected that it would pay. No opera house in the world ever paid as an investment, and none ever will...
...also went to the Canadian press, which sent it out to member papers marked "Hold for Release." The release was contingent on Prime Minister King's tabling the report in the House. But the Prime Minister refused to table it, on the grounds that it would give aid & comfort to the enemy. Immediately the question arose of whether the Government ruling was valid or a blunt attempt to suppress legitimate criticism. With the Drew report before them, but with no go-ahead from the Government censors, the decision to print it or not was up to the editors...