Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high food prices were not likely to decline so long as the high support prices for farm products were continued. In its nearly 30-year history, the federation, strongest U.S. farm lobby, has always gone down the line for price supports and for guaranteed markets. Congress had seldom failed to heed its cry. This year it was the Southern cotton and tobacco growers who came out strongest for keeping farm support prices as high as possible and for extending them to commodities that are not being supported under the present law (e.g., fruits and vegetables...
...signed up with the Shanghai police. From time to time in the next 20 years, he would turn up on brief leave and let the Perth neighbors goggle at his strapping, soldierly bearing and his fierce military mustache. His father, old Bill Hutton, a railroad worker, seldom failed to point out the framed certificate on the wall awarding young Bill the Distinguished Service Medal for the capture of "armed bandits...
...early last week, the Gimo pondered a war map in his upstairs study. It was time for the kind of decision he has seldom made...
...Drew Pearson, a match for most libel lawyers, brags that he has not yet paid a judgment (though his attorneys' fees are huge). He will work for hours to make an item libel-proof, or to tone down the libel until it is not worth suing over. Editors seldom ask Pearson for his proof. They know he will fight the case for them if they are sued. It is not altruism on his part. He cannot afford to lose many suits and stay in business. "But when someone shows me I'm wrong," he says, "I retract...
...charge accounts or sales slips, no alterations or deliveries in Nathan ("Ned") Ohrbach's book on how to run a clothing store. If a dress is not sold in ten days, Ned knocks it down to cost; after another week he cuts it to half the cost (but seldom has to). Last year his two Ohrbach's, Inc. stores - on Manhattan's shrill 14th Street, and in Newark, N.J. - made a handsome profit of $1,500,000 on close to $40 million in sales...