Word: rolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roll back the prices, we'll save a barrel...
...roll back the prices-in a pig's left...
...conservative Howard Smith dourly protested. Smith didn't see "why we should confer the Medal of Honor on labor for pulling a railway strike when we've got a war in Korea." When Speaker Sam Rayburn persisted in trying to call up the bill, Smith demanded a roll call...
...postponed price increases as long as they could would be punished by a rollback. By the same token, the steel companies which raised their prices on Dec. 1 would be left alone, but manufacturers who raised prices on Dec. 2 to compensate for the steel boost would have to roll them back. Said one Chicagoan: "[Rolling] back prices in the face of higher costs must have been the system Mr. Truman used in [his] haberdashery to insure his going out of business...
...jitters. Then, crowded by the professor's deadline, the Prime Minister shares the secret with the people in a tense radio talk. Troops and civil defense workers take over the city; packing only what belongings they can carry by hand, London's millions queue up resolutely to roll out in all directions in a placarded fleet of buses, military trucks and trains...