Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gluska won his point. The committee allowed $15 for each extra wife...
...they skimmed off $275 million annually in dividends and interest, many U.S. investors wondered why more Canadians didn't get in on a good thing. Was there a lack of Canadian capital? Up to a point, there was, but the shortage was partly due to a shortage of Canadians (12.8 million v. 148.5 million U.S. population). Moreover, many a Canadian in the chips wanted to play it safe. He put his money in the more conservative wood pulp, paper and textile industries, left such speculative fields as oil to gambling Americans with specialized know...
...that there is an intimate connection between the psychiatric and medical treatments of rheumatism. The emotions are known to affect the glands that produce hormones, just as they affect the muscles; the hormones, in turn, affect the emotions. In the study of rheumatism, the doctors have not reached the point of being able to say which comes first-the rheumatic chicken or the emotional...
...Mahoney stood up on the Senate floor last week and exclaimed: "It is clear to me that someone has to straighten it out . . . [with] plain language." The "it" was the confusion over prices caused by the U.S. Supreme Court's outlawing of the cement industry's basing point system (TIME...
Businessmen were pleased-and surprised-that Joe O'Mahoney, an old trustbuster and friend of the Federal Trade Commission, wanted to permit freight absorption, a mainstay of the basing point system. But O'Mahoney said that the bill would only put into law what FTC has been saying ever since the Supreme Court decision, namely, that any manufacturer could absorb freight charges to meet a competitor's prices at distant points so long as there was no conspiracy to fix prices. What FTC had objected to was collusive freight absorption. Much of the confusion, he thought...