Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henderson added that rationing could take effect within two months, price control "almost overnight." Any time a government wants to fix prices or groups of prices and make it stick, it can get reasonable control...
...Overnight Lowell was transferred from Thursday's spotty-shooting, poorly led victim of Eliot House into a play working, sure shot quintet. Paced by guard Al Miller, who sank 11 points, the team worked play after play through center Post...
Hardly a day after Abbott's announcements, shortages appeared and prices spurted. Overnight, cars were up as much as $500. In Montreal, spinach jumped from 12? a lb. to 28?, green beans from 30? to 43?, lettuce from 16? to 29?, electric toasters from $12.50 to $15.63, refrigerators from $350 to $437. The spurt brought back price ceilings this week on processed foods...
...nimble way in which upstart Texas Eastern had jumped overnight into the first rank of U.S. public utilities impressed Wall Streeters. But what really made their eyes pop was the way Manhattan's Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. had handled the financing-and thereby reaped fat paper profits for itself and the promoters of Texas Eastern...
...shrewdies who think that since they are getting away with overnight parking now, they will continue to do so had better learn a lesson from their brethren who tried to insinuate women into choice, but masculine, seats in the Stadium cheering sections. Law enforcement has a way of tightening up that catches even the clever...