Word: evens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effect, the President was using a housing act to press a reform which Congress did not specify in passing the act. The loudest outcries came from builders and bankers in the South, and in New York and New Jersey. Even housing officials sympathetic to its sociological aims wondered: Would the new rule endanger the nation's healthy building boom...
Back home some 400,000 miners heard the latest news with evident relief. Another strike would indeed have made Christmas even bleaker than it was apt to be anyhow in the coalfields of Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Pennsylvania. The boss had called them out in March and again in June. In July he had put them on a three-day week; in September he had ordered them into a full-scale strike which had ended in the uncertain three-week truce. Among the highest paid industrial labor in the U.S. when they work, the miners had worked only...
Fulton Lewis briskly pointed out that General Leslie Groves was then head of the Manhattan Project. Jordan added that Hopkins "gave me instructions over the long distance telephone to expedite certain freight shipments ... I was to ... say nothing about them, even to my superior officers." Three shipments came through, of 500, 1,150 and 1,200 Ibs. Said Jordan: "All I know is that Colonel Kotikov had it listed as uranium...
Parnell Thomas, who in his 203 had changed his name from Feeney to Thomas, and his religion from Catholic to Episcopal, had served his New Jersey district in Congress for twelve years, had even been re-elected last November with the charges hanging over him. He had indignantly denied them then. Due in federal court for sentencing this week, he was expected also to resign from Congress, to let a better American take his place...
Government agents had kept watch on merchants' prices, had set rents at a modest $44 a month for a five-room house (including heat), had fended off crime, slums and commercialized sin. And Richlanders didn't even have any local taxes to pay: the Government made up the annual million-dollar deficit...