Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...standstill, Senate and House committees listened coldly to the Administration's explanations of Harry Truman's anti-inflation program. Ex-OPAdministrator Paul Porter, who had been re-enlisted by the White House fortnight ago, was the chief performer before the House Banking and Currency Committee. His main point: roll back prices to November 1947 levels on such items as meat, dairy products, clothing, steel...
...objects of this comment stick close to their husbands and their husbands stick close to one another. Russian officers and political advisers cluster tightly in two corners of the main room, tense little groups conversing as if the buffet were a conference table to which they had to return in five minutes with a major policy decision...
...stable western progressives in the same stalls with eastern arch-Tories. It did not work. They had ended with a lacklustre program, not liberal enough to steal votes from Mackenzie King, not conservative enough for right-wingers. Last week many Conservative bigwigs were pinning their party's main hopes on a tested Tory, big, handsome Premier George Drew of Ontario. So far, the only other contender in sight was Saskatchewan's John George Diefenbaker, Tory gadfly of Parliament...
...delegates of 69 nations meeting in the main hall of the old League of Nations building in Geneva were there on serious business. Their job was to make the world a somewhat healthier place to live in. Last week the 450 delegates to the U.N.'s World Health Organization ended their 1948 sessions convinced that they had taken a few steps forward...
...University Theater (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). Dramatization of Sinclair Lewis' Main Street...