Word: cues
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hands of the U. S. Government when the Navy Department announced the award of a 750,000-lb. contract at 8½? per Ib., lowest price in 14 months, to Milhauser Trading Corp.(copper brokers), one of the loudest opponents of the code. Domestic fabricators took the cue, dropped prices of all copper products 1? per Ib. Copper for export sank to 7¼? against a top of 7½? the previous day and 8½? the preceding month...
After two days 200 newshawks flocked in for their first postdecision interview with Franklin Roosevelt. The country, badly confused, seemed eager to take its cue from him. But the President was not yet ready to play the prompter's part. To persistent questions, he smilingly retorted that the real spot news on NRA was not in Washington but out in the country, in mine and factory, in shop and office where the first effects of the Supreme Court's ruling were already evident (see p. 63). When someone asked specifically about General Johnson's White House visit...
When Franklin Roosevelt upped the price which the Treasury pays U. S. silver producers from 64? to 71? an oz. (TIME, April 22), the world had its cue. For the price to U. S. producers was boosted to keep it ahead of the mounting world price. But the world price was mounting because of U. S. buying in the world market. When a player shows that he is willing to raise his own ante, there is no limit to the betting...
Bands of Negro hoodlums went about bashing in store windows. A few Negro shopkeepers sought immunity with signs saying: COLORED STORE. Some white merchants took this cue to post notices: COLORED HELP EMPLOYED HERE. Vainly a Chinese laundryman pleaded: ME COLORED TOO. Hanging eternally out of their windows, Harlem's less excitable householders saw a Fifth Avenue bus stoned, heard the frightened cries of passengers in a Boston bus as eleven pistol shots thudded into its side. Looting followed the smashing of more than 200 shop windows. And when the looting started, police dropped their nightsticks, took out their...
That was Huey Long's cue to howl that the Administration had now decided to "turn on the heat from all sides" against him. From National Broadcasting Co. he asked for 45 minutes instead of a half-hour radio time on a coast-to-coast hookup. "I'll cover Johnson's case from Hell to breakfast!" cried he. "There will be 25,000,000 people listening to me tonight. Give me 15 more minutes and I'll have the whole world listening...