Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate floor last week and exclaimed: "It is clear to me that someone has to straighten it out . . . [with] plain language." The "it" was the confusion over prices caused by the U.S. Supreme Court's outlawing of the cement industry's basing point system (TIME, May...
...said he would rather see a thousand insurance companies with assets of $4,000,000 than one company with assets of $4 billion . . . a hundred steel companies instead of U.S. Steel. This is pure nostalgia for the horse & buggy days of business, plus a fear that while bigness may be economically good, it is socially...
...power-men should not be lulled into thinking that long-term demands would lessen just because business had started to slip off. Said he: The current slide in business might last until the second quarter of next year. By the end of 1951, there should be an upturn that may bring production right back up to where...
Smaller Margin. Publisher James H. McGraw Jr. (McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.) also drew a bead on the Administration. He accused Harry Truman of causing the current power shortage in the Northwest by short-circuiting power projects. The result is that the area "may be set back for a long time to come...
...Over the Town (Rank; Universal-International) is chiefly notable as a starring vehicle for Sarah Churchill, onetime chorus girl, WAAF officer and stage actress, and second daughter of Winston Churchill. It is also an inoffensive little picture-which is fortunate for U.S. moviegoers who may be curious to get a close-up look at this charming chip off a famous old block...