Word: said
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turned pro in 1947, Big Jake had also learned about eating. When the schedule called for six or seven nights of consecutive play, he filled up on late-afternoon steaks and topped off with egg-nogs. But he cut down on the calories when there were off-nights ahead. Said Kramer: "I think I'll tell the fellows at Forest Hills, 'When it rains, eat light...
...signals: consumer credit is now up to $17 billion, almost double what it was at war's end, and the Federal Government is running into the red at the rate of $5.5 billion a year. Too many houses are being built on too slim security, said he, and the new corporation pension plans, which he flatly called "a big mistake," will keep prices high. He thought that the time had come for FRB to tighten up on credit and thus discourage inflationary borrowing...
...Brannan plan," said the Grange, "has totally undesirable political implications . . . That party which would promise farmers the largest bonus out of the Treasury would garner many votes not obtainable on ... an honest, sound platform. It would then become a race to see which party would promise most...
...cough and a sputter; then a stream of oil shot out 30 ft. and poured into the mud sump pit. Joe York rubbed his hands in the oil, smelled it and smiled. "I guess I won't have to go back to milking those Jersey cows," he said. The oil scouts took but one look and one sniff, jumped in their cars and raced for telephones...
...week, some 6% of all the oil rigs on the North American continent had moved to Scurry County, 200 wells were already in and producing at the maximum allowable rate of 35,374 barrels a day, 133 new ones were in the process of drilling, and wildcatters were everywhere. Said one old Texas oilworker, who had followed the rigs through all the great Texas fields: "This is the biggest thing yet. It's the last time I'll see it in my lifetime. They just don't come like this very often...