Word: plain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fulbright pushed through Congress a bill under which the courts could review U.S. Department of Labor prevailing minimum wage orders. His purpose was plain. Under the Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act, the Department of Labor had set nationwide minimum wages for manufacturers and suppliers holding $10,000 or more in Government contracts. Since the Labor Department's minimums were affecting the wage scale throughout the textile industry, Southern textile men wanted to attack the order in court. After Fulbright put through the amendment, the Southern manufacturers sued to wipe out the national minimum of $1 an hour in cotton...
...type. In him, the entrepreneurial strain that made millions out of oleomargarine for his grandfather had not quite died out. Mickey, who stood to inherit $3,000,000 by the time he reached 30 and whose mother supplied him with ample cash, was not content to be a plain young rake; ambition led him to capitalize his vices in pimpery...
Such reports, and hundreds of others, flow every week into an uncarpeted, buff-walled office overlooking the Hudson River, 32 miles north of the George Washington Bridge. At her plain desk a kindly looking woman with china-blue eyes and a no-nonsense way of handling paperwork sifts the reports, ponders, scribbles notations. On her decisions depends the deployment of a worldwide spiritual army. Her title is appropriate to the task: she is Mother General Mary Columba, 63, of the Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic, head of the U.S.'s biggest, most active Roman Catholic women's missionary...
When Attorney General Herbert Brownell set up a committee in 1953 to study the nation's antitrust laws, he made it plain that Fair Trade pricing would be one of the key subjects. Last week, after one of the most comprehensive antitrust studies ever undertaken, the committee of 61 lawyers, professors and economists turned in its 394-page report. Chief recommendation: Fair Trade laws should be repealed...
...imposing (6 ft. 3½ in.) frame still erect at 84, Speculator Baruch sat down to testify as the last committee witness. It was plain, as he delivered a clear and witty explanation of how the market functions, that he should have been the first witness. "At the outset." said he, "let me emphasize that no one knows whether stocks are too high today." because the market's rise or fall depends on such unpredictables as economic conditions, politics, international affairs, emotions-even the weather. "Largely because of the crash of 1929, the impression has built up that...