Word: feds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Purchasing agents listened with the same anxiety with which Washington watched the momentary upcurve of wages and prices. Businessmen guess that the U.S. consumer is already fed up with high prices and poor quality. From California came hints of a buyers' strike in real estate. A Los Angeles dealer reported that his volume had "fallen off 75% in the last 60 days." On the heels of the labor strikes, which had helped push prices up by raising wages and curtailing production, a general buyers' strike might well be in the making. A short one might be a good...
Rhoda Wenger was fed through nasal tubes. To find foods that her stomach would accept, dietitians tried everything: vitamins in liquid form, juices, beef broth. Sometimes the formula was changed several times...
...heritage of freedom? Jeannette Vermeersch and Maurice Thorez were betting that they were. Frenchmen everywhere, nearly as food-and fuel-conscious as the women of Les Halles, last week heard Communists making down-to-earth campaign speeches with little mention of Marxist ideas. By stressing the black market that fed the rich and starved the rest, Party Boss Thorez hoped he could make enough Frenchmen forget the less immediate but not less important issues involved in this Sunday's national elections...
...stroked the picture once more. Suddenly, as if on a movie screen, the lost cousin appeared, dressed in a faded uniform and strolling down a grassy slope. "Where are you?" shouted Antonio. The cousin stopped, turned and silently moved his lips. Antonio lip-read his words: "In Nairobi, fed up with prison...
England's Edward II used to shock his court by an inordinate fondness for bathing and for an ambitious Gascon knight named Piers Gaveston. But after his wife, Isabella of France, got fed up and had Edward murdered in 1327, the hero worship of the populace triumphed over the sour recollections of the aristocrats who had known him. Although he has never been canonized, Edward II became (like his forerunner, Edward "the Confessor," no kin) a royal "saint...