Word: mops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British arrested hundreds of Hurs, promptly executed 27 ringleaders. But they had done more than a mop-up job on rampaging natives. From his sand-island G.H.Q. dominating the jungle, Major General Roland Richardson authorized this statement: "The whole operation may be regarded as valuable practice for jungle warfare elsewhere, in which the British forces so far have been at a marked disadvantage...
...Mop-Up. In Indianapolis, a holdup man robbed a drugstore of $68, overlooked another $10, which burglars removed later the same night...
Whatever FRB's order does to the great U.S. institution of easy credit, it will have little effect on inflation. Though OPA last week estimated that the new restrictions would mop up $2 to $2.5 billions in potential credit, the inflationary gap between purchasing power and available consumers goods is already so huge that even a no-credit-at-all order would not solve the problem. The U.S. Department of Commerce has estimated that, even in normal times, 63½% of all retail sales are made for cash, 23½% on charge accounts, only 13% on the installment plan...
...Congress four years ago from Oklahoma City. To grow up as a good Congressman he listened, kept his mouth shut, studied hard, said nothing until he had something to say. What he said then usually made sense. This week earnest Mike Monroney stood up in Congress, brushed back his mop of hair, peered at his colleagues, and let them have...
...Remarkable Andrew (Paramount) is a refreshing fantasy. It brings back a posse of Founding Fathers and other once-vigorous Americans to mop up a pack of dishonest, flag-waving, 20th-century politicians...