Word: plea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Truman, whose plea for new restrictions on distilling had been turned down by Congress, appealed directly to the liquor industry to limit itself. But the distillers weren't impressed. They knew that preliminary estimates on the 1948 wheat crop were so favorable that last week the grain market had a severe slump (see Col. 3). They could quote Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson's own optimistic testimony (on the European Recovery Program) that grain supplies were ample. They could point to foreign distilleries using grain for whiskey (for export to the U.S. for dollars...
What had caused it? As usual, the Street had many answers. Some blamed short selling, selling by foreigners, uncertainty over the Marshall Plan and the plea to Congress by Bernie Baruch, a crack speculator himself, to forget tax cuts, put back an excess-profits...
Kluckhohn concluded with a plea to applied social scientists that they not be "taken in " by a system of cultural stereotypes, any more than they would believe that there is something called "human nature" that will explain all man's actions...
...Dore Schary had "postponed' two pictures, The Boy with the Green Hair (which preached racial tolerance) and White Tower (a plea for international harmony). There was doubt that Frank Capra, already well into making State of the Union (for M-G-M), would have started this satire on U.S. politics under present circumstances. One frightened Hollywoodenhead said that even last year's Academy Award winner The Best Years of Our Lives could not have been made now (one of the villains was a banker...
...that they have been 'exported' here for slave labor." They offer to "produce the 'ransom' to 'rescue' the D.P.s if they will join the ranks of the Reds." Even when the immigrants reach their new homes in Canada, said Bishop Ladyka, the "Communist plea" continues by mailed pamphlets which warn the immigrants that Canada is controlled by "fascists and capitalists," and to return to Europe "before it is too late...