Word: following
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effects of this strategy would be widespread. FTC says that there are 191,907 companies which use basing points. As industry's bellwether, Big Steel had set a pattern which thousands would follow. As a result, U.S. consumers might soon have to pay more for a whole lot of things -for furniture, oil, machinery, paper and hundreds of other items...
...Swim. Said Harry Truman: "When I was asked to appear here today, I began to think of my childhood and the celebrations of the Fourth of July. It was always customary in those days to read the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. . .We don't follow that custom any more, [but] I hope that everyone of you, some time today, will read that document once more...
...favor Israel in the north, Arabs in the south; merger of the Arab areas with Transjordan; unlimited Jewish immigration for two years; an economic union of the two states. Neither Arab nor Jew accepted these first proposals. But neither did they reject them outright, and Bernadotte was ready to follow up with more suggestions. Said he: "I will carry on with the discussions as long as may prove necessary and fruitful." He began sounding out both sides on an extension of the U.N. truce, due to expire this week...
Double Trouble. If a patient has two kinds of psychosomatic disease, it may be because he has overlapping personalities, or because one disease sets the other one in motion. Examples: high blood pressure often follows hyperthyroidism, hyperthyroidism often follows stomach ulcers; high blood pressure may follow or precede stomach ulcers...
Summer Holiday (MGM) is a musical version of Ah, Wilderness!, Eugene O'Neill's 15-year-old comedy of smalltown life in the Teddy Roosevelt era. In some respects, it is still fresh, for Director Rouben Mamoulian has attempted to follow on film the pattern he used on the stage with Oklahoma! Instead of unfolding in rigidly separated plot scenes and musical numbers, Summer Holiday was planned as a flowing synthesis of songs and dialogue...