Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...housewives read the bad news in their store windows every day. A sirloin steak which cost 79? a pound in Denver last fall now sold for $1.15. In Atlanta, a $60 suit now cost $65. Across the nation, cigarettes were up 1?a pack...
...Republicans needed any more petards to hoist Harry Truman, they had one in ex-Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner Eccles. He agreed that the Administration's plan for increasing bank reserves was one way to check inflationary credit. It was a scheme which he had suggested himself last fall and which the President had then ignored. As for the rest of the President's program, such proposals as the long-range housing program would only force inflationary pressures even higher. Said Eccles: "It's like try ing to fill up the bathtub with the stopper...
...inflation section. But Harry Truman was going to wade right into two of the hottest issues of the campaign: housing and high prices. His message asked for passage of the Taft-Ellender-Wagner bill and most of the ten-point anti-inflation program he had put before Congress last fall, including standby authority to ration and control the prices of scarce commodities "which vitally affect . . . health and welfare...
...then came some welcome news. The conferees had agreed that the Allied airlift to Berlin could be stepped up to 4,500 tons a day by next fall. A new airport would be constructed in Berlin to handle additional C-54s. The planes could be supplied without serious strain on either the Air Force or its military transport service...
...next fall the Big Four might sit down under quite different circumstances. By then there might be a move toward a U.S. military guarantee of Western Union, starting with practical staff cooperation in an Atlantic defense system. Western Union might be moving rapidly on the political and economic fronts...