Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House the other day with an ultimatum. "One more salted penny," said he, "and we rip out every pay phone in the House." The Deacons still don't quite see why A. T. and T. should be worried about a measly $.04. And, after all, it isn't a plain penny. It's got salt...
Davis' guiding principle is that "a free people has a right to know." He tries to base propaganda on plain truth, whenever he can dig it out in Washington. But the truth is not always palatable, either at home or abroad. The Allies do not enjoy hearing of strikes, Washington bungling, domestic political quarrels-but the Axis does. Yet Davis, reared under a free press, could not and would not suppress such facts. Thus one of his big problems is to explain the U.S. satisfactorily to the world...
Davis' Work. But while his Washington life is perhaps comfortable enough to Elmer Davis, the U.S. has had the bad end of the bargain. In place of a voice that nightly made things sound clear, plain, sensible and always reassuring for five warming minutes, they got an Administrator, lost in the fog of Washington...
Toward The Rocks. The biggest reef ahead was John L. Lewis. This week his 500,000 bituminous miners began negotiations for their $2-a-day wage increase-which is far & away beyond the 15%-raise yardstick. The shaky aircraft decision was plain warning to John Lewis of what his miners may expect. Last week, Lewis said...
...Absenteeism is merely a fancy word for a very plain, very stark, very ugly situation. The workers in our plants . . . are not on the job long enough, steady enough, reliably enough, and as a consequence, we are not doing a good enough job to win this...