Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fair, one of the nation's leading public health experts, was awarded the Legion of Merit last Friday for his work during the war on the National Research Council. He organized the engineering division of the Office of Sanitation at the beginning...
Since then, he and the Natural Seven have inflicted on the nation Pagan Ninny's Keep 'Er Goin' Stomp (from Violinist Paganini's Perpetual Motion), Moe Zart's Turkey Trot, Cigareetes, Whuskey, and Wild, Wild Women, and such publicity stunts as advertising for an ugly vocalist ("preferably with two heads. Neither must be attractive"). Through it all, Red has been miserable. Now things are going so well, he doubts if he'll ever get out of the band business. Says he: "It's like gumbo in the spring. You just...
...Pacific Southwest tourney. And he was mad. The press had panned him for going straight home (to work at his job, selling refrigeration equipment) after winning his Davis Cup matches. They expected a little more interest in the game from the man who had once been rated the nation's No. 1 amateur. His opponent last week was young Pancho Gonzales, who had just won the national amateur championship Ted Schroeder might have won at Forest Hills...
Last week the department had a new hot potato. Potatoes from Canada, which also had a surplus, were flooding the U.S., underselling the propped-up domestic spud. In Portland, Maine, right in the nation's own potato patch, Canadian potatoes were about 40? a 100 Ibs. (15%) cheaper, despite a duty of 37½?; and 43? freight. Maine so far this season has shipped only 133 carloads of potatoes (v. 483 at this time last year), while Canada had sent 398 carloads into...
...book opens, Justice Windom is preparing a radio address for the troops overseas, trying to define what they are fighting for: the founders of the nation had had a vision-"unity and common understanding there had been ... but the mockers came. And the deniers were heard. And vision and hope faded . . . yet there always arose enough of reserves of strength, balances of sanity, portions of wisdom, to carry the nation through to a fresh start...