Word: peg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pulling the Peg. The result was so exhaustive that it will take even professional economists weeks to wade through all of its essays, graphs, appendixes and guesses. One thing, at least, was clear: out of the thousand experts consulted, scarcely any two were in agreement. As might have been expected, FRB Chairman William McChesney Martin insisted that the FRB had been right in pulling the peg on Government bonds (i.e., stopping rigid support), and that the FRB's whole program of credit restrictions had helped check inflation. There was one surprise: Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder...
...your Feb. 11 account of the "Three Sharpies" who pilfered the apartment of Fashion Designer Mollie Parnis, you state that the young thieves "were ... of the variety who are called 'sharpies' and who wear peg-top pants, sharply pointed shoes, Windsor-knot ties . . ." Hmmm, guess you didn't take a close enough look at the Younger Generation you wrote about a while back, as, if you had, you would have observed that the Windsor knot is very popular among the 18-to-28 age group...
...Legion's Americanism Commission, said Peg, had "taken [him] to task"-and why? Just because he had reported when he was in Europe recently what any fool could plainly see: that U.S. union men are working with the Government to deliver Western Europe into the hands of socialism. The people who dare to disagree with Pegler's choleric omniscience are no ordinary fools. Nevertheless, in this case, said Peg, the facts should be plain, even "should be known to the shallow politicians of the Legion in their jealous competition for trashy publicity to promote their insurance business, their...
...Commissioner George P. Monaghan assigned 20 detectives to the case. Within 48 hours he proudly called newsmen, produced most of the loot, and the robbers, who turned out to be anything but professional. They were unemployed hoodlums, of the variety who are called "sharpies" and who wear a uniform-peg-top pants, sharply pointed shoes, Windsor-knot ties, tight blue topcoats. The ringleader was Joseph ("The Blimp") Paladino, 24. His accomplices: Joseph ("Jo-Jo") Guidice, 20, and Carmine ("Zoc") Zoccolillo, 21, also known as "Toothy" because he likes to wiggle his pivoted front teeth. The plan...
...Parisian women who used to snigger at British "tow sack" styles were causing a mild riot, buying English dresses almost as fast as they could be shipped in, despite a 52% French duty. The wool dresses were ordinary, low-priced utility numbers that could be bought off the peg in modest shops in Birmingham or Liverpool. In Paris none sold for more than 10,000 francs...