Word: holes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resignation of able Harold Smith as Director of the U.S. Budget (TIME, July 1) added one more chore to the President's appointment troubles. Last week Harry Truman plugged the $10,000-a-year budget hole in a familiar...
Fourteen months after Germany's collapse the nations are still fiddling with the relatively easy issues on the periphery. In the center of the puzzle is a great hole which this Paris conference is not supposed to touch. The hole might be expressed as: what to do about Europe? Molotov hinted at the Russian answer last fortnight-an eventual Russo-German alliance which would dominate Europe. The West's reaction was a stiffening attitude and a move to unite the western zones of Germany under democratic auspices...
Harry Truman could view the sad results of political expediency and appeasement, which began when he ended rationing after V-J day, granted labor its demands for wage boosts, and then tried to hold prices with OPA, hoping production would pull the country out of its hole. Congress axed OPA and, despite the President's pleas, was all set to drive a stake through its heart and bury it at a cross roads (see below). Harry Truman's fum bling efforts to control the economy had failed; now the country, nerves on edge, faced the prospects...
Faith & Sweet Potatoes. In two years Mrs. Bethune's school was teaching 250 girls. By selling sweet-potato pie and ice cream to the railroad construction gangs, she raised enough money to buy the oozing city dump (known as "Hell's Hole"). Negro workmen, who took out part of their pay in tuition, built Faith Hall with secondhand bricks on 32 acres reclaimed from the dump...
...edge of White Bear Lake, landed a tagged sunfish. War Vet Elmer Hauge poled a pike at Pequot Lakes-its jaw tag was the lucky number 1,000. And I. O. Bane of Deer River, who caught a tagged fish on June 23, returned to the same hole last week and landed another. His present problem: what to do with two batches of prizes, including 104 cases of Pepsi-Cola...