Word: eye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...float his stock, if he amended his registration to meet SEC's approval. But he had little time-unless WAA gave him another extension. There was little chance of that because Republican Senator Homer Ferguson, whose Michigan automakers regard Tucker as a wishful dreamer, had turned a probing eye on the whole deal. Ferguson said that he "assumed" the plant would revert to WAA if Tucker did not make good on July...
...drop in exports may cause it to change its mind. The drop is not far off. Last week, Brazil and Argentina got ready to cut their U.S. imports. Canada is seeking means to do the same. Britain is surveying all its imports with an eye to slashing them about $800 million a year; any cuts it makes will be deepest on imports from...
Across the level fields of Comanche County, as far as the eye could see, the wheat nodded under the Oklahoma sun. When a breeze stirred the golden grain swayed in long waves. A breeze was welcome; sweat, running down the back, made an itchy paste of the chaff blowing from the two self-propelled combines that were cutting and threshing the wheat on Farmer Wilbur Morrison's 400 acres...
...also happens to have a few "Catholic radical" acquaintances, and though far from a radical himself, he objects when a pugnacious Brooklynite damns Franklin D. Roosevelt and his "filthy Jew advisers." One day Billy Ryan, the neighborhood Tammany boss, looks Moon straight in the eye and thunders, "You and your goddam Communist friends." A few hours later Father Malone angrily orders Moon out of the neighborhood rectory. Moon, who has never knowingly talked to a Communist in his life, recalls that a priest had once warned him that there were elements in the Church guilty of ignorant hate...
...INNOCENT EYE (268 pp.)-Herbert Read-Holt...