Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good news from auction rooms and retail stores, minkmen have had their troubles. With feed prices high and markets erratic, more than 2,000 ranchers (U.S. total: 6,500) went out of business in the past year. With coat manufacturers, a big complaint is the 20% luxury tax, which puts prices just out of reach of a big market...
...effort to eliminate widespread complaint about the disturbances members have been forced to install condensers in radios in the Dunster St. vicinity two and three times every week. "Sooner or later, we'll have repaired all the radios and have eliminated the difficulty, stated Domezi. According to him, the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company is repairing phones disturbed by the broadcast...
...replace parts in Furnace Two with parts from Furnace Three; now, we have to replace the missing parts from Furnace Three with parts from Furnace Four." Carpenter Giinter Blankenburg groused that the solitary electric bulb in his barracks gives "less light than a candle flame." But the chief complaint was lack of food: "Sometimes," said Walter Jerkisch, "you can't buy butter or margarine...
According to Ready, the operation in which a bookseller is "warned" works something like this: after a complaint from a group of private citizens has been received by the police, an officer, usually a plain clothes man, will visit the bookstores carrying the supposedly obscene piece. The officer will call the attention of the book-seller to the "lewd" parts in an attempt to discover his intent in selling the book...
This is my major complaint, then. Fischer has advanced a stimulating thesis along with a host of facts which at best seem incidental. It is the lack of a compelling connection which disappointed me, for what's the use of poring over dry details if they don't lead anywhere...