Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last fall, when he was called, he took on the apparently hopeless task of rebuilding the Democrats' dwindling bank balance. He coaxed a whopping $1,500,000 out of contributors. Early this year, a grateful Harry Truman recalled: "There were times in this campaign when we were pretty well strapped. We couldn't buy radio time; we couldn't even pay for transportation. But we did get Louis Johnson interested . . . and from the time he began operations we were able to make the necessary tours and get some of the radio time necessary...
Optimism & Pessimism. Production had hardly slipped at all. The FRB index was at 191 for January (1935-39 average: 100), down only four points from the postwar peak last fall. Construction in February was 14% ahead of 1948. The steel industry scheduled its eighth straight week of overcapacity output, and the auto industry was heading for the best monthly production since...
Honorary Bricklayers. In the refrain of "Squire" Harge, superintendent of the mission, he must "husk the corn and shell it and finish the fall plowing and get up some fence posts and flail out the wheat and boss the Indian women while they dig the rest of the turnips and potatoes and move that big stone under my kitchen stove and put a new floor in my sitting-room and there's some repairs on the cart and we need a new privy and a couple of ox-yokes and I have a clock that...
...staff members will take over the Cambridge administrative work of the Seminar this spring and will be at Salzburg during this summer. Their term will end next fall when a new staff, will be selected from the student body...
After intermission, Alfred Howard and Robert Matson joined the pianists in Bartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion. It was clearly the big attraction of the evening; in fact, I thought Sanders Theater would fall in a heap from the applause when it was over. Just how much of the work's impact comes from powerful writing and how much from the force of the medium is hard to tell on first hearing. It seemed to me that much of the percussion part was only reinforcement, especially in the first movement. The two elements have a clearer relation...