Word: mackerels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mackerel cannot see or touch itself, thus has no idea what sort of creature...
...Moonlit Mackerel. When Franklin Roosevelt appointed Fly to the FCC chairmanship in 1939, FCC was a seven-man tangle of bickering members. Its job was to regulate radio, telegraph and telephone communications, but it was not having much success. Radio, as Fly saw it, was a newly rich business which had little idea of its public responsibility. It was, he decided, a "duopoly" dominated by two national networks (NBC and CBS), and Fly set out to break...
...struggle was bitter (he once paraphrased John Randolph, saying that radio management reminded him "of a dead mackerel in the moonlight which both shines and stinks," and management replied in kind). The fight ended with a blockbuster which the Supreme Court dropped on the industry in 1943, ruling that FCC had the power to enforce its regulations on the radio industry. The sum of these regulations was the freeing of the 900-odd U.S. stations from total network domination (TIME...
Unlucky Seven. Subsidies and price control were two key planks in the President's seven-point 1944 legislative program. Congress has passed only one of the seven, the least important: mustering-out pay. The others have been pushed about, postponed or pigeonholed. One−the National Service Actis mackerel-dead. Anothercontract-renegotiation powers −was thrown around, then thrown into the tax bill...
...could piously claim that it had not violated the Little Steel formula. Technically it had not; but as a yardstick for real wages the formula is now mackerel-dead. WLB achieved its politically determined result by adding four and a half hours' work-at overtime pay-to the miners' week, and by allowing travel-time pay, something which it swore only five months ago it could...