Word: faired
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...productivity of the industry has increased, steelworkers have teen paid a fair share of increased profits...
Bouncing out of the wings and turning on his Missouri accent, he had gotten off a rousing, "give-'em-hell" speech, designed for the farmer-labor combination that had elected him last November. The audience at the Allegheny County Fair was tailor-made-farmers from the countryside, steelworkers from Pittsburgh's mills. "Farmers and industrial workers . . . depend on each other," he told them...
Caught in a tight pair of Palm Beach pants earlier this year, the Goodall Co., largest U.S. maker of men's summer suits, suffered some embarrassing rips. It made many retailers mad when a sudden cut in the retail price of Palm Beach suits (fixed by Fair Trade laws in 45 states) forced merchants to lose profits on the suits in stock (TIME, July 18). Last week, Goodall's President Elmer L. Ward was confident that he could patch everything up. He had a brand-new kind of Palm Beach cloth which, he predicted, would revolutionize...
...Jewish D.P.s through British patrols, a one-sided desert scramble that resembles a gang of dead-end kids working against one slow-thinking cop. The same Englishmen who watched Errol Flynn and Humphrey Bogart win World War II take a brass-knuckle beating in Sword's ostensibly fair-to-everybody script. When the Voice of Israel (Marta Toren) is captured, a Tommy bucks her up by remarking, "I say, what rotten luck...
...easy to learn, and it was a dandy game because it made the winner feel good and the loser feel terrible. All the player had to do was wrap up some garbage, sneak up on his opponent and slam it in his face. But the play had to be fair & square. Just before the pitch the thrower had to yell...