Word: echoeing
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...mellow voice of Price Administrator Ellis Arnall rose tremulously as he discussed the inflationary effects of the steel price increase. It will "set off another round of inflation," said Arnall, and add $100 a year to the average family's budget. The echo of Arnall's tones had hardly died when his boss, Economic Stabilizer Roger L. Putnam, flatly contradicted him. There had been a "lot of talk" about steel setting off a round of inflation, Putnam said evenly, and it just isn't so. Although big steel had held "a loaded gun" at the Government...
...first big batch of second-quarter earnings came out last week, it looked as if overall quarterly results would echo an old refrain: sales up, profits down. Of the first 130 companies to report, most could point to a slightly higher gross, but the average net was down 7% from 1951. Nevertheless, the stock market found no cause for alarm in the reports. The Dow-Jones industrial average, having forged ahead to a new 22-year high a week before, edged still higher to 279.26 before easing...
...fourth term at the Democratic Convention, Barkley got the news that Roosevelt had passed him over as a candidate for Vice President in favor of Harry Truman. This was a personal hurt, but not an affront to the party, so Barkley pulled himself together and made the hall echo with his eulogy of the Chief...
...Georgia," they kept telling her, "you gotta get a sound." Musical soothsayers were trying to get Songstress Georgia Gibbs into line with the latest fashion. Perhaps, they thought, she should sing mechanized duets with herself (like Patti Page), or she might try an echo chamber background (like Peggy Lee). But gimmicks were not Georgia Gibbs's cup of tea. She had a big, old-fashioned voice, a good ear, a vivacious personality, and she knew how to sing from the shoulder. She would stick with plain Georgia Gibbs...
...Mind (Jimmy Palmer; Mercury). A definitely easygoing sentiment tricked up with a razzle-dazzle ukulele solo, echo effects and Gay Nineties lyrics...