Word: guesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Producer Eddie Cantor reports that packed Boston audiences are wildly enthusiastic; why is anybody's guess...
...President's fact-finding panel went a company statement carefully drawn up by Lawyer Walter Gordon Merritt, long a thorn in labor's side.* His argument: 1) no fact-finding board could do more than guess at a company's ability to pay wages in the future; 2) ability to pay was not a proper standard anyway, since it could only result in forcing some industries or companies to accept "a super-wage" higher than its competitors were paying...
...seemed to ride in on a backwash of shortages, tie-ups, Missouri politics, old union contracts and recapped tires, most Americans were still willing to guess that the future would be vast and exciting. If not, the time for worrying would come soon enough The average citizen still had money, and his wife still had some perfume and a permanent wave. As the clock struck twelve he would probably think of a fine way of toasting the future and toning up his stomach...
...week's end Perón told university students, "I doubt whether the people of the United States really know what is happening here." For those who could read, and remember Hitler, it was not hard to guess...
...decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. Last week he also announced that he plans to buy 1,000 brand-new sleepers for his Chesapeake & Ohio railroad. C. & O. now has only 436 passenger cars of all types, obviously has no need of 1,000 sleepers for itself. Best guess was that Bob Young plans a sleeper service for roads not in the combine...