Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Work to Do. Eying profits, many a consumer asked whether industry had done its share to keep prices and inflation down. Many a company had not. Said Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer: "In some cases, price increases have been more than necessary to cover costs, and have contributed to the inflationary spiral...
...Done. As 1948 began, oil was so short that oilmen worried about a .return to rationing (during one cold spell, New York City had to beg oil from the Navy to keep its hospitals and schools warm). To stave off rationing, oilmen earmarked $5 billion for expansion in 1948-49 and worked as never before. Wildcatters roamed the U.S. far & wide, looking for oil in the most unlikely places...
...getting the brother caught in the middle of a gang war. To prove fairly conclusively that the racket doesn't really pay, Garfield's passion for a pretty secretary (Beatrice Pearson) comes to a very bad end, and his chief client and business partner eventually gets done...
...closed. But Fisher himself said that he did not care if the meeting were closed or not. And even if he cared, the Council's primary obligation was to the student body, and not to the man it was about to impeach. Of course, nothing should have been done to hurt Fisher unnecessarily, but the Council had no right to protect him--if you call it "protection" to keep Fisher's own case foggy along with everything else--at the expense of its obligation to the student body...
Bender, who reported that he was once a Tribune newsboy, said that if Harvard had to be smeared, he was glad to have it done "by papers people have little use for." He disclosed that freshman enrollment from the Chicago area had increased this year despite the Tribune attacks...