Word: erects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fight against inflation ... is the most subtle, the most difficult and the most important." But it did not seem so last week; there was too much evidence of deflation. Commodity prices were dropping (see below), and mortgage credit was tight. Last week Wilson promised builders enough materials to erect 850,000 housing units this year (40% below 1950), but the National Association of Home Builders complained that "the general disappearance of mortgage money" makes it highly doubtful that buyers can be found "for that many houses...
...week's end, having called in a tailor for some fast work, MacArthur put on civilian clothes publicly for the first time in years, turned up at the Polo Grounds in a snappy double-breasted grey suit and a light grey homburg, looking younger and more erect than he did in his well-worn uniform. The P.A. system boomed out a recorded 17-gun salute as the MacArthurs were escorted to a flag-draped box. "We are going to ... watch the long hits, mark the errors and razz the umpire, even if we know he is right," announced...
...Cambridge City Council yesterday granted a position of the Greater Boston Committee for Wheat to India to erect a table in the Square from which to sell wheat in order to raise money for aid to India. The Council approved the petition unanimously...
Toronto's Public Works Commission was trying to decide whether to erect a $3,000 bronze statue of Mary Pickford. The design, already approved by the home-town girl who made good in Hollywood, is a four-foot-high, eight-year-old lass with dangling Pickford curls...
...Cover) A hush fell over the assembled Congress of the United States and the crowded galleries. In the silence, the Doorkeeper's voice came clear: "Mr. Speaker, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur." In a great wave, the applause and cheers burst upon the erect figure who strode down the aisle. Democrats, Republicans, and the crowds in the galleries rose as one, clapped and shouted on & on. Across 8,700 miles, through cheering crowds, clouds of black headlines and storms of angry argument, Douglas Mac-Arthur had come to this podium to make his stand before the nation...