Word: lid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that," she said. "Everyone's entitled to take the lid off once in a while. And I think that when two people...
...product cannot be effectively controlled unless prices of all the raw materials going into it are also held down. To be successful in his attempt to control auto prices, Valentine would have had to control prices and wages all down the line-in fact, put the lid on a major segment of the entire U.S. economy. The auto industry consumes 20% of the nation's steel, and huge quantities of rubber, paint, fabrics, copper and almost every other major raw material...
...Whipped through a bill to extend federal rent control 90 days beyond Dec. 31, thus keeping the lid on rents until the 82nd Congress can get around to making up its mind about...
...successful candidates and the 'B' letter to the defeated candidates." Just elected governor of New York, Roosevelt was already patching and extending his fences. The bulk of the letters he wrote during the next few years show a man glad-handing his political allies, shrewdly holding the lid over his political boom lest it explode prematurely, and generally behaving the way a governor does when he wants to become President...
Taking advantage of a new law, the burgeoning defense agencies had been solving their manpower troubles by offering applicants the top civil service pay scales-from $11,200 to $14,000 a year. Last year Congress provided for 400 such jobs in the entire federal service. This year the lid was lifted for the defense agencies, whereupon an estimated 500 candidates in these agencies alone were clamoring for such pay. Last week the President issued an executive order limiting the agencies to 150 such jobs...