Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Across the Atlantic, where our equipment is as modern as that of any airline . . . BOAC frequencies have reached eight round-trips weekly, and during a recent period BOAC carried the highest number of passengers per plane between the terminal points of New York and Montreal and London. Incidentally, in addition to the five Constellations which you mentioned, BOAC will also, in the early part of next year, add six Boeing Stratocruisers...
...Harry Truman. What were the chances for tax reduction? The President would not say, right out, that there could be no tax cut. But he strongly implied that any effort to reduce taxes next year would get a heavy going over by him. Treasury Secretary John Snyder, patting his round, little private surplus, nodded approval as the President explained his tax policy: cut the debt by taxing heavily in prosperous times. Added Harry Truman: "The international situation has also made it imperative that we plan for a surplus, both in view of the problem of promoting world recovery...
...defender during the week. He lambasted labor's "brazen effrontery" and called for a congressional investigation of "any and all efforts to by-pass the law, whether by unions working alone or in conspiracy with employers." Employers perked up their ears and wondered what sort of merry-go-round they were on now. Many, for the sake of labor peace, had taken their contract cue from Co-Author Bob Taft. He had found "no illegality" in the coal operators' deal with John L. Lewis which bypassed some of the law's provisions...
Remembering the 1937 crop of traffic jams, the broken windows, the roistering funsters with water pistols and electric ticklers, most New Yorkers felt much the same way. But this week Manhattan dug in for another invasion of a round million Legionnaires and their friends, arriving from everywhere between Buenos Aires and Alaska for their 29th annual convention...
...only second-round doubles match, Wendell and Zinsser edged out Anderson and Ashley in a see-saw match...