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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cannot imagine how I just long for these conversations," said O'Mahoney ironically...
...think my mind is made up before I come here," cried O'Mahoney...
...Fairless given any thought to the steel shortage? "Are we going to sit here and see this [steel] demand fall," roared O'Mahoney, "or are we going to take action which will maintain the demand . . .? On every hand you find evidence of popular desire for things which are not being supplied . . . But you find also that because of inflation, people's needs are outrunning their income. Shall we just wait...
Before a Senate subcommittee investigating business profits last week sat U.S. Steel Corp.'s Ben Fairless, giving the Senators the facts on his company's high earnings. Midway in his testimony, Wyoming's hawk-browed New Dealing Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, veteran critic of big business, opened up on a favorite subject: the steel shortage...
...That was your mistake, you see," O'Mahoney snapped back. "You just assumed that I am on some side of the street. I know the side on which you are, Mr. Fairless...