Word: patchwork
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feel convivial." The hardest part of his work is to find the symbol which will differentiate one brand of liquor, cosmetics, or fabrics from all the rest. (Examples: Rand's Coronet Brandy waiter, whose head is shaped like a brandy glass, his Stafford Fabrics' patchwork horse...
...core of Manhattan's sprawling 18th Congressional District is a verminous, crime-ridden slum called East Harlem. Its hordes of Italians, Puerto Ricans, Jews and Negroes have traditionally voted Republican. But in the last decade a new force came into power: the patchwork patronage machine of shrill, stooped, angry-eyed, pro-Communist Representative Vito...
Under strong lobby pressure to end all price controls, the House of Representatives has pasted together another patchwork quilt of economic irrationalities and short-sighted solutions. Business and farm groups envision a speculator's paradise in which they will make a quick, sure killing; the amended Price Control Act is the result of their wondrous wishful thinking. The inflation that may soon follow would be tragic for most Americans, the large majority of whom favor blanket renewal of the OPA for another year. With elections approaching, Congress is gambling-but national inflation is hardly worth the risk...
...danger of runaway inflation, they said to an anxious and puzzled nation, would be over by June 1947. Meanwhile, all that was needed was a little more reconversion patchwork. They got help from some Congressmen. The House will begin consideration of a bill to extend Paul Porter's OPA for another year, and authorize $2 billion for consumer subsidies. The Senate gave Housing Expediter Wilson W. Wyatt $600 million to pass out in premiums for building materials...
...speak up; French Communists were too strong, and France too weak. The world's most powerful nation was represented in London first by U.S. Secretary of State James Byrnes, a habitual compromiser, and then by Stettinius, a competent, sincere negotiator. But they expended their energies on conjuring up patchwork formulas...