Word: periodicity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decline has been moderate," insisted Harry Truman. So far there had been no speculators' spree, no sudden upsurge of personal debt, none of the familiar warning signals of an economic smashup. But in this "transition period," he admitted, there was no longer any point to the whole kit & caboodle of anti-inflation controls which he had been demanding. Nor was there, he acknowledged, any longer a possibility of the $4 billion tax increase he had asked for last January...
...Cowardly & Illogical." Taft called such a notion "cowardly, pusillanimous and illogical." His own proposition would cross the t's and dot the i's: in the event of peril to the nation, the President should be permitted to enjoin strikers and/or seize plants for a period of 60 days. Hard-pressed Majority Leader Lucas tried to win last-minute friends to the Administration's Thomas bill giving the President power to seize plants (usually a more potent weapon against management than labor). Florida's Spessard Holland wanted an amendment to do just the opposite and permit...
...Robert L. Levy of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, conducted extensive tests ... on the effects of cigarette smoking on the heart. At the 69th Annual Session of the American Medical Association on June 12, 1947, he said: "It has been our experience, over a period of years, that most patients with a cardiac disorder, including those with disease of the coronary arteries, can smoke moderately without apparent harm. In fact, for many, smoking not only affords pleasure but aids in promoting emotional stability...
...makers of Silver Lining tried hard to include everything. There are ornate period sets of hotels and music halls, a touch of Uncle Tom's Cabin played in blackface by Marilyn's family, and the 1918 Armistice exploding in headlines and parades. Everything, in fact, is so crowded and cluttered (including the sound track which now & then goes slightly hoarse) that little room is left for nostalgia. In the midst of the uproar Miss Haver sweats out two whole decades and a dozen styles of dance routines. Though fresh and appealing in her pigtail period, she is never...
...THIS TEST COVERS THE PERIOD MID-FEBRUARY 1949 TO EARLY JUNE...