Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last Drop. The calamity howlers were sure OPA would be forced to eliminate price ceilings. But all prepared to fight until water in the last tap had been turned off. When Landlord Paul Sierson got OPA permission to evict 40 families from Villa Italia apartments, tenants began writing letters to the President, hired a lawyer, shrilly predicted that the place would be turned into a hotel if they were thrown out. The new rates, they said, knowingly, would be higher...
Last week UNRRA's Director General Herbert H. Lehman told a House Committee what damage the delay had done. Pressed for funds, UNRRA had been forced to drop $50,000,000 in orders for "critically needed" medical supplies, to spend the money on food instead. Now UNRRA was completely broke...
...drop will keep Chevrolet the cheapest car of the Big Three. The prewar differential of $20 between the cheapest Fords and Chevrolets will now be considerably larger...
...mutterings fazed Earl Warren not a bit. He had campaigned and been elected as a "nonpartisan" in 1942 and he seemed determined to go merrily along his non-partisan way. To some observers this seemed politically smart. California voters are notoriously fickle and cross party lines at the drop of a good pension plan...
...straitjacket. Guard: 'Completely coo-coo. Found him trying to board a ship. Yelled he was going to the Big Three meeting to save the world. Screamed he represented all the people on earth. The nut said he had a teeny-weeny atomic bomb and knew exactly where to drop it. Said he was commissioned by God.' Patient falls heavily to floor. Headlines: .. . 'Mysterious Explosion Destroys Bellevue. All Maniacs Missing...