Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pet Aversion. In Portland, Ore., William Mason, whose neighbor would not keep his yapping dog locked up at night, finally won his point after crawling around on all fours outside the neighbor's house and barking at the top of his lungs...
Minnesota's beefy Harold Knutson then introduced the first bill: his pet project to cut 20% off taxes on personal incomes up to $302,000, and 10½% above that. In quick succession came revised versions of the Case bill to clip the powers of labor, and a measure by Michigan's anti-labor Clare Hoffman to throw out portal-to-portal pay suits (see BUSINESS), even those already pending...
Faithful to the novel, the film tells the simple story of a small boy named Jody Baxter and his pet fawn. After suffering a few heartaches, the boy grows older. The plot's minor themes examine the young'-un's sweet-spirited, poverty-ridden parents, who scratch a hard living from the none-too-good earth of Florida's scrub country...
...deal revived talk of Juan Perón's pet idea of an Argentine-led "Bloque Austral" (Southern Bloc), including Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay and Uruguay. The plan was temporarily shelved after Bolivians overthrew their pro-Perón Villarroel Government last July. But the Chileans, if they felt any fears of Argentine-domination, kept quiet about them. The press without exception praised the Argentine treaty, generally gave President González Videla high marks for starting the project. Said González himself: "There is absolutely no reason to fear Argentine economic penetration. . . ." Chileans obviously...
...Pet Peeve. In San Diego, Mrs. Letha Wagoner sued for divorce, complained that her husband made her sleep with the dog, added: "The dog had fleas...