Word: falle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your article on the British economic crisis [TIME, Aug. 29] practically ignores the U.S. tariff as a cause of Britain's dollar hunger. How much importance should be attached to it, and what are the facts? I wish to buy an English overcoat this fall. If I pay $100, how much of it will go to our Government as tariff ? How much will stay with the American merchant as profit? How much will get back to England...
...Showing. Harry Truman, who is never happier than when he is off on the old political two-a-day himself, was in bubbling spirits. On Labor Day, he had tried out his act again for the first time since last fall, and it was still the unchallenged best on the political boards...
...long ago as last fall, Dodger Boss Branch Rickey realized what he had in Newcombe. When the dollar-splurging Pittsburgh Pirates asked the Montrealer's price, Rickey put a half-serious $1,000,000 tag on him; that drew a short answer from Pirate General Manager H. Roy Hamey: "You keep Newcombe; I'll keep my million." Later, before the 1949 season opened, Rickey solemnly announced that Newcombe was for sale: "The price, gentlemen, is a half-million dollars, and when I say a half million I don't mean...
...national circulation. The National Cancer Institute had granted $19,600 to help the Texas Cancer Bulletin, just renamed Cancer Bulletin, to reach out to every doctor in the land. When he picks up this gaudy piece of jazzy journalism, the most exhausted country doctor can hardly fall asleep. In fact, he may be so upset that he will need a sedative...
...Federal Reserve Board hauled down a storm signal last week. Ever since last November its production index, one of the barometers of U.S. business, had been skittering down. It had dropped 33 points to 162 in July, indicating a 17% fall in overall U.S. production. Last week FRB reckoned that production was bouncing up again and that the index for August had risen, probably back to the June level...