Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flutterings of the U.S. economy (TIME, July 18), President Truman was now trying to explain the formula so that the patient itself could understand it. All the country really needed, Harry Truman believed, was the proper dosage of public works, some other financial therapy from Washington (the Fair Deal's economic and social legislation) and the close cooperation of business, labor, agriculture and government...
...Signed the Housing bill, the only major piece of domestic Fair Deal legislation to pass Congress so far. Result: Uncle Sam will soon help pay the rent of one million U.S. families every month...
...Shriners' annual conventions are one noisy manifestation of a quiet and widespread U.S. phenomenon. Fraternal societies, which dwindled during the depression and war, have flourished anew. This year they occupy a good deal of the leisure time of almost a quarter of the country's adult population...
...young politician, Judge Ardery told the expectant courtroom, was 34-year-old Ed Prichard, Princeton and Harvard Law School honor graduate, protégé of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, adviser of big shots like Fred Vinson and one of the New Deal's wonder boys...
...noon one day last fortnight, Army buyers assured them that it was the likeliest bid yet received. Taking no chances, Uruguayans in Montevideo phoned their Chicago agents 15 minutes before the deadline, told them to lower the offer to $27.63. That, said the Army, practically settled the deal; Washington would probably confirm it within half an hour...