Word: pegs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just another exhortation. Clem Attlee called for a voluntary freeze, but he warned that the government might intervene if necessary. Failure to peg wages and prices, he said, would lead to a pricing of British exports out of the world market. That would quickly mean "mass unemployment and real desperate hunger...
...midweek the pressure was so great that the government had to do something. Finance Minister Douglas Abbott announced the remedy: a partial return of price controls. There would be price ceilings on meats, to be fixed in a week or two; controls on butter, to peg it around 73? a lb.; controls on certain types of fertilizers and a rollback of the price of chemical ingredients; extension of the government's price-control powers for another year. The government might even import butter from New Zealand. Rent controls would continue...
...popular music, Alfred Bryan & Fred Fisher's 34-year-old hit Peg o' My Heart (TIME, July 7) was the top song of the year. But the biggest record-seller was Francis Craig's tinkling Near You, which skyrocketed a dime-a-dozen record company (Bullet) into the big money. Top-selling bands on records: Vaughn Monroe and Ted Weems. Among girl singers, Jo Stafford, for her mock hillbilly disc of Timtayshun, rated twice as high in hit-tune sales as Dinah Shore. Perry Como was easily the top record-seller among the crooners. Most surprising fadeout...
...always wanted to take those Poles down a peg," the Tsar broke in, "but something was always tying my hands...
Listening Post. In Washington, William O'Brien sued for divorce, complained that when his wife felt like nagging she hid his peg leg to keep him from walking...