Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plus transportation charges to where it is sold. The price of Middle Eastern oil, when sold in Europe, the FTC reportedly charged, is a Gulf-plus price, even though it is cheaper to produce than U.S. oil. Last year U.S. Navy vessels refueling in Mediterranean ports had the same complaint. Last week Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Willard L. Thorp told a congressional committee that world oil prices are fixed to correspond to the basing point system of U.S. prices...
...hand in greeting, and stood holding himself stiffly erect, almost as if overwhelmed by the sound. Herbert Hoover was 77. Time had whitened his hair, turned his cheeks a flaming pink, and softened the lines of his face. For 20 years he had suffered, with dignity and without complaint, an auto da fé of criticism such as few men, even in public life, have ever endured. But this was his night among friends, his night for the homage due an ancient warrior. The uproar lasted for 13 long minutes...
...Complaints & Exasperations. There was little doubt that one top Briton had a complaint: the U.S. should have passed the word to a soldier it implicitly trusts, Field Marshal Alexander, who was touring the battlefront and visiting his old friend Mark Clark just before the bomb bays were loaded. But Alexander himself, though surprised by the raid, said he approved of it. That set off Bevanite demands for Alexander's head...
Once in the open again, Aldebaran is only too glad to marry the first man who offers her a steamship company as a wedding present. In this case there can be no complaint about the happy ending-it brings the book to a close some 700 pages sooner than its famous picaresque predecessor...
...major leaguer, Shantz has allowed only two bunts to become hits. Says Manager Jimmy Dykes: "Anyone who bunts against Shantz is nuts. Bobby comes off that mound like a cat at a mousehole. When he's pitching we have five infielders." Dykes's one "complaint" about his little lefthander is made with a wide grin: "The only trouble with Shantz is his frailness. He can't pitch every...