Word: rug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sell at minimum prices can force all other merchants in their state to observe the same minimums, whether they sign up or not. Thus Congress and the President had legalized the same mandatory signing clause which the U.S. Supreme Court had tossed out 14 months ago, pulling the rug from under Fair Trade...
...price increase. This was $1.50 more than the steel companies were entitled to under the Capehart amendment, plus a 70? allowance for higher freight rates. It was also just about what ex-Mobilizer Charlie Wilson had proposed four months ago, before Harry Truman pulled the rug out from under...
...Millions of Americans, already considering it their right to be present at major news events through TV, resented having the committee shut them out. The committee's action backfired in one case, when an enterprising radio reporter smuggled a microphone into the room (hiding the wire under the rug), recorded some anti-Taft testimony, which was later broadcast.* Outside, TV cameras caught the grim faces of three guards posted at the closed door...
...city streets from dawn to sundown. They furnish the common man's music: the oompah of his visions, the clanging of his troubles, the tra-la-la of his frolicking loves. Some notable feature of design or decoration gives them distinctive names: "Big Belly," "Buffalo," "Water Jug," "Rug Beater," "Cement Mixer" (for an oversized grinding wheel...
...dealing with a man Truman had criticized for attempts to use influence in Washington. Would McKinney be asked to resign? Truman's jaw shot out and his voice crackled. McKinney, he said, suits him down to the ground. The President isn't going to pull the rug out from under McKinney just because something happened that the newspapers didn't like...