Word: provisioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For helping to test the campaign-expenditures provision of the Taft-Hartley law (TIME, June 28), Pressman collected a whopping $37,500 for himself-with an equal amount for his co-counsel, Charles J. Margiotti of Pittsburgh, and $9,000 in additional expenses. Angrily ordering immediate payment of the whole...
The strike clamped down West Coast ports as tight as a submerged submarine's hatches. About 160 U.S. ships of the Pacific cargo and passenger fleets were caught in port; about 200 were at sea and would be tied up the minute they docked in West Coast ports. Hawaiians...
Moreover, the order contained a new provision that would intensify the shortage. Companies with military orders can henceforth be allocated steel to fill those orders even though they may already have enough steel on hand. The House Small Business Committee insisted on this provision, so that little companies would not...
The Anatomy of Happiness. Do wealth and fame bring happiness? To Betty Grable the answer is yes. "I have what I want," she says, "and I am what I want to be." When her contract at Fox expired recently, she annoyed businesslike husband Harry by signing a new one with...
Meanwhile the Federal Housing Administration would be meandering toward inflation with the new housing law which Congress passed last week. Its main provision is something called "yield insurance," by which the Government will back private investment in emergency housing up to 90% of capital outlay, and insure a 2¾...