Word: much
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wasn't quite as much a victory as it seemed. By the time the lawyers finish with its loopholes, it will probably cover at least 200,000 fewer employees than the old Fair Labor Standards Act. The old bill affected workers "necessary" to production of goods in interstate commerce; the new one applies to the approximate onethird of the U.S. working force which is "directly essential" to production in interstate commerce. Specifically excluded are farm laborers, newspaper carriers, small telephone, telegraph, newspaper and logging operations; employees of most local stores and laundries...
...staff members with espionage, and jailing one of them. These incidents and charges, said Acheson sternly, were "obviously trumped up in order to intimidate further the local population . . . This government has sufficient knowledge of the police methods and practices employed by the present regime in Czechoslovakia to know how much credence should be placed in 'confessions' and 'irrefutable proof produced in cases of this kind...
Reprisal? The effects of the President's decision rumbled off much farther than the Pentagon Building. He was immediately accused-most heatedly by House Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Vinson-of taking reprisals against Denfeld for his testimony before the committee, though witnesses had been guaranteed safe conduct by Louis Johnson himself. Others complained that in the summary manner of firing, the Admiral had been unnecessarily humiliated...
...What would the rich, full life of 1980 be like? ". . . The United States will gradually become a country of two-car families," Slichter thought. "In another generation 70 million or more cars will be on the roads . . .Air conditioning in restaurants and office buildings will create the demand for much air conditioning in homes. The family-sized swimming pool is likely to become popular and millions of these pools may be installed...
...wrong. His good friend Governor Thomas E. Dewey had never been so bold: he had given his approval to most items of Harry Truman's program before saying that he could do them better. Republican Senator Irving Ives had been elected as a liberal, especially sympathetic to much of the New Deal's labor legislation. But, making his first plunge into county-level politics, conservative, 61-year-old Senator John Foster Dulles could not be accused of "me-tooing...