Word: sellout
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Public power advocates charged, of course, that McKay's decision was a "sellout" to private interests. McKay made it clear that his department would still go on building big, multi-purpose dams where private capital could not do the job. But the Administration had decided to let private enterprise have first crack at river valley development jobs it could handle...
...Harlem theater enjoyed a sellout business with a new attraction: old Heavyweight Champ Joe Louis, featured (at $7,500 per week) as a member of a dance revue...
...fiveyear, ten-month, 2½% bonds or short-term notes in exchange for $3.8 billion of maturing certificates (TIME, Feb. 9). The certificate holders took only $619 million worth of the longer-term issue. But as the bonds went on sale this week, it looked like a quick sellout...
This kind of "deal," besides having the air of a sellout, would be not real advantage to the Administration. Loading the six man Commission with high tariff partisans would be a large price to pay for Stimpson's cooperation in Congress. The President has forwarded his own bill for the continuation of the Trade Act. The measure makes a logical and encouraging sequence to the British move of increasing the percentage of their Continental imports, and West Germany's similar trade-easing move. The President has rightly acted to leave open the chance for lower tariffs, but he need...
...Times. Said Art News: "One of the few painters to emerge from postwar Paris with something personal to say, and a way of saying it with authority." Manhattan buyers were just as complimentary in a more practical way: by week's end the show was a near sellout...