Word: sawyer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, back from a trip around the East, had discovered that people "had an abiding faith in the soundness of our business economy." Last winter's decline of U.S. business had been interrupted. Manufacturers' orders for May and June had gone up 8%; job layoffs had dropped to their lowest rate since last November; the cost of living also dropped, if only an imperceptible...
...little like Tom Sawyer drawing a line in the dust with his bare toe and "dassing" his foe to step over...
...steelmen met in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria last week for the American Iron & Steel Institute's annual convention, Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, Harry Truman's good-will ambassador to U.S. business, brought them mixed tidings. For one thing, they were not alone in their doldrums; in April, Sawyer's economists had reported, the sales of all manufacturers slumped $1.2. billion from March to the lowest monthly total ($16.9 billion) this year. But Sawyer was optimistic : the gross national output, as he pointed out later in the week, was still running ahead of 1948, there...
Coach Dick Meryman will start: at attack, Ned Yost, Bob Baldwin, and Lou Schaffer; at midfield, Rip Lynch, Al Sawyer, and Pete Brooke; at defense, Captain Bill Spence, Jay Byrne, and Godfrey Birckhead; and at goalie, Dick Thomas...
First-string starters will probably be Lou Schaffer, Rob Baldwin, and Ned Yost at attack; Godfrey Birckhead. Willie Byrne, and Captain Bill Spence at defense; Pete Brooke, Al Sawyer, and Rip Lynch at midfield; and Dick Thomas at goal...