Word: mumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...price up), has done most of the exporting for the U.S. since war's end. It has found cotton so hard to sell that it is now arranging to ship some 1,000,000 bales to Germany and Japan to get their spindles going again. But CCC kept mum on the price, gave no hint of when it expects to be finally paid off. CCC still has nearly 5,000,000 bales on hand-and few buyers...
Emerging from a 45-minute White House conference, Chester Bowles was mum. But two days later he was back at the White House; rumors of his resignation suddenly died down...
Behind the Statement. While Henry Kaiser got his usual bumper crop of headlines, Big Steel-which always moves slowly-remained mum. But there were other reasons to consider, beyond Ben Fairless' statement that "there is a limit," for Big Steel's stand...
...higher. Labor Conciliator Edgar Warren, the man chosen to settle the threatened meat packers' strike, hinted that the only solution was a ½c-a-lb. increase in the price of meat bought by the Army, Navy and UNRRA. Chester Bowles, his bathrobe soaked to the belt, remained mum...
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., who left a comfortable senatorial seat to join the fight in Europe, was out of the army as a Lieutenant Colonel and back on his Massachusetts farm, drafting a public speech for next month's delivery. On future plans he was virtually mum: "I haven't ruled anything out or anything...