Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joint Seminar...
...Joint Congressional Committee on Housing had padded from coast to coast, sniffing for the scent of a grey market in building materials. All over the country, Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy, vice chairman of the pack, had picked up signs of one Isadore Ginsberg of New York City, who was plying a brisk and highly profitable trade in gypsum lath. McCarthy was outraged at Ginsberg's prices. (He was getting $52.50 per 1,000 sq. ft. for lath selling for about $40 in lumber yards.) Furthermore, McCarthy charged, Ginsberg moved fast enough to buy up large quantities...
Building Up. U.S. business, said SEC and the Department of Commerce in a joint study, expects to spend $4.1 billion on new plants and equipment in the first quarter of this year. This is 30% more than was spent in the corresponding period last year, and 80% more than in 1929, the highest prewar year...
After examining the evidence, Dr. Leake signed a joint statement with the Better Business Bureau's Bauer. Yes, a "substantial number" of doctors was involved...
...Joint Bondage. Jane Gellson did not withdraw into herself; she lived by the usual patterns of society. As a result, she was sucked into increasingly impossible situations. A sensitive young man, Bernard Meddow, fell in love with her, attached himself to her like a pathetic puppy, and all she could offer him was a mild pity. For how could she tell this conventional young Englishman that she was already secretly married to a German whose whereabouts were unknown? Meddow, Jane and her husband all suffered because of the inevitable hurts of human dependence; each was an innocent victim...