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...country switched off, begged the public to save gas & electricity, suspended 3,854 passenger trains. Philip Noel-Baker, Minister of Fuel & Power, pleaded in a radio address: "Put the kettle on before, not after, you light the gas. Don't boil more water than you need. Keep the lid on the saucepan while you're cooking. Try to use your electric heater for half an hour less every...
...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...