Word: dealings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recall that last year at this time I devoted a letter to the favorite recipes of TIME'S women readers, who had sent them to us in response to our inquiry. We had hoped that their replies would reveal a good deal about their cooking customs and the food products they use. They did that-and more. Many of the recipes were accompanied by an enthusiastic discussion of home problems and a general philosophizing about cooking...
...contest, in the big cities, in upstate New York towns which had been safely Republican for years. Most important, the Democrats won back the crucial Senate seat in New York, which both parties had accepted in advance as the first real 1949 test of Harry Truman's Fair Deal line...
This committee would help students who thought they had been bilked to prepare Small Claims Court actions, and it often conducted investigations of its own to make sure that the unsuspecting purchaser got a square deal at retail or repair establishments...
After introductions, which included some comment or topical reference to each guest's home state, we were conducted into the dining room where two ladies were pouring tea at opposite ends of a candle-lit table. "I feel that these affairs will accomplish a great deal even if they only get the freshmen into the civilizing habit of tea-drinking," someone was saying, as I reached for some sandwiches, obeying a primitive urge...
Unhappy Treasury. But the U.S. Treasury was not quite so happy about the deal. It has been concerned about the problem of "sell & leaseback" since 1945, when Union College of Schenectady bought, for $16,150,000, the buildings of Allied Stores Inc., and leased them back to the company. Soon other colleges were buying not only real estate but commercial businesses as well. So many U.S. stores and other enterprises have sold their property to tax-exempt institutions* that the Treasury is now losing an estimated $1 billion a year in income taxes. A survey by the American Council...