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McInnis relieved Groper with lefty Rufe Webb, the eventual winning pitcher at this point. Billy Burns sacrificed Thomann to third. However, Walsh tagged Thomann out at the plate on the next play and then relayed a cutoff to second for the final out. On a play that went from Smith to Walsh to Young...
...Plan and the special aid and loans that preceded it; the North Atlantic Treaty and arms aid; U.S. troops for defending Western Europe; Point Four. AGAINST (with Truman): participation by Spain in the Marshall Plan (but for a separate $100 million loan to Spain); the Kem amendment, requiring a cutoff in U.S. military aid for countries that ship strategic materials to the Soviet Union and its satellites...
...Cutoff. As the supply of goods wore thin, so did tempers. Gimbels lashed out at Macy's advertised policy of selling all goods 6% cheaper for cash. "A misleading claim," snapped Executive Vice President Louis Broido. "Nobody can continuously undersell everybody else on everything by 6% or 60% while rendering equivalent services . . . Every thinking person knows [this] just isn't true." But Gimbels didn't quit the price marathon. "Waltz us around again Willie," sang its ads. "If somebody plays the tune, we'll dance and dance . . ." Macy's didn't get tired, either...
...Ward Keener, vice president of B. F. Goodrich; Henry Arthur, manager of commercial research at Swift & Co.) were for permitting an 8% rise over wages in effect on Jan. 15, 1950. Such fringe benefits as pensions and production raises would be included in the 8%. A firm cutoff in wage boosts had to be made somewhere, or the whole anti-inflation program would come unhinged. Ching and the other two public members (Clark Kerr and John Dunlop, both economics professors and veterans of Government mediation and fact-finding boards) succeeded in persuading the industrial members to agree...
...eligible cutoff date to qualify as a D.P. was advanced from Dec. 22, 1945 to Jan. 1, 1949, thus giving a chance to refugees from postwar pogroms and Communist persecutions, and the requirements that 40% of all admissions be Baits and 30% be farmers were struck off. Despite Pat McCarran, the U.S. at last was about to do a little more for the world's helpless, as both parties' platforms had long pledged themselves...