Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Signed the Housing bill, the only major piece of domestic Fair Deal legislation to pass Congress so far. Result: Uncle Sam will soon help pay the rent of one million U.S. families every month...
White House Help. Five days before, Federal Mediator Cyrus Ching had stalked out of a negotiating session, throwing up his hands in despair. Actually the mediation meeting had lasted only 2½ hours. Phil Murray, out for big game, refused to budge from his insistence on discussing pension demands (although, under the contract, he was only entitled to open wage and insurance negotiations this year). Profit-fat steelmen* as stubbornly dragged their feet on wages as long as the union wanted to talk pensions, too. At that deadlocked point, Murray looked hopefully to the White House...
Without warning, the Army temporarily relieved two of its highest officers from duty. They were the first casualties in a campaign against Government officials who help Washington's "five-percenters" get Government contracts for businessmen. The suspended officers...
There was some plainer speaking. Earlier in the week, Cripps had told the House of Commons that Britain would cut her imports from the dollar area by 25% to help stop the drain on her dollar supply. Now, Cripps wanted the Commonwealth to cut its own dollar area imports...
McDavid's questions touch on everything from farms to funerals, crops to courting, health, weather and insects. He has learned that a dragonfly is a great help in filling out an isogloss. Yankees in some parts of New England call it a devil's darning needle, while some Southern Coast people go for mosquito hawk, and the Pennsylvania-Dutch merely turn the Old Country name for it into English: snake waiter...