Word: ought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shipments from South America to the U.S., WSA insurance rates are not nearly so high-in order not to upset OPA's price ceilings in this country. (Example: coffee from Brazil is charged a special government rate of 25? per $100.) But Brazilians think inflation for the goose ought to mean inflation for the gander...
...mean promoter himself, President McKinnon countered with a national Aircraft Women's Club, whose merchandising potency so impressed Los Angeles' big Barker Bros.' home-furnishings store that it established six free clubhouses for chapter members. Still on the inside track, McKinnon figures that his three papers ought to considerably fatten up the $500,000 gross he made last year with only...
...punch in the nose and with no sense of public relations at all, spare, terrier-like Rear Admiral Emory Scott Land, Chairman of the Maritime Commission and War Shipping Administrator, stood up last week before the Investment Bankers Association of America, in New York, and said: ". . . organizers . . . ought to be shot at sunrise...
...full quotation: "I have a few pet hates: 1) organizers, 2) profiteers, 3) needle boys-intriguers and 4) typewriter strategists. As far as the organizers are concerned, for the duration, in my opinion, they ought to be shot at sunrise...
Last week, for instance, the OPA slashed the price of women's full-fashioned nylon stockings from around $2.95 to $1.65. A Manhattan department store was advertising rye whiskey at $2.29 per quart, and Scotch at $3.29 per fifth. Gasoline, which the citizen ought to conserve, is still offered to him at between 17? and 23? per gallon-and the Government is paying a transportation subsidy to the oil companies to keep the price down in the East...