Word: customs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...begun to share Tano Lucchese's enthusiasm. Each year, some 30,000 Mexicans come to San Antonio from across the border, some 130 miles away. Even more important than the millions they spend is San Antonio's position as the gateway to Mexico. Last year, the Laredo customs district handled $333,300,000 worth of U.S. exports most of which passed through San Antonio. San Antonians expect this to increase when the Pan American highway is finished. And they hope to establish a foreign-trade zone, similar to the custom-free zones at New York and New Orleans...
...cherished American custom of buying the good things of life on the installment plan has been greatly restricted by Regulation W, a wartime emergency measure. Buyers have had to plunk down one-third of the purchase price on cars, refrigerators, etc., pay off the rest within 15 months. Last week, President Truman said he would soon scrap Regulation W as he does not feel that such war measures should be retained indefinitely. But he hoped Congress would make consumer credit control permanent. Marriner S. Eccles, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, told the House Banking and Currency Committee...
Banker's Pay. Custom-cutting will remain profitable as long as wheat prices remain high and farmers grow more than they can cut with their own machinery. Dupree, a trucker in Phillipsburg, Kans. in the winter, has done well enough to acquire two combines, two trucks, a pickup and trailer (worth more than...
While you fellows have been tinkering around with all the petty issues of UN and those Russians, you have utterly failed to attack one of the most heinous practices in this fair land of ours. What is it, you may ask with a sneer. Of course it is the custom of the intentional pass--in baseball. Now listen: I enjoy baseball, love to see the Red Sox play. I go out on a warm June afternoon to see Williams slug away, and what inevitably happens? There are men on second and third and Williams is up. Even the little thrill...
There were 31 musicians on the stand, and in everybody's mind was the memory of a 32nd: Trombonist Glenn Miller, their former leader, who was killed 2½ years ago in a plane crash over the English Channel. The band still carried around Miller's custom-made trombone. Last week crowds who jammed into the huge casino heard the familiar sweet ballad style-a clear, wan clarinet leading a throaty quartet of saxophones in the melody, backed by a powerhouse of brass-that had once made Glenn Miller the No. 1 jukebox favorite...