Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does not make speeches, he lectures. His voice is as flat as a Midwest prairie. But he always says what he thinks, and means what he says (example: his two-word admonition to the U.S. people in 1947 to "Eat less"). His wife, Martha, is an ingratiating and razor-sharp platform performer...
...Sharp-tongued Martha Taft, the Senator's wife, barged into Rockford, Ill. last week and delivered herself of some comments on Harry Truman's new White House balcony (now complete except for final painting). If he sat on it every night all summer, and every warm night in May, she told a group of Republican women, it would cost the taxpayers $150 a night. "I should think he wouldn't want to sit on it," she added, "especially since it faces South. But perhaps he will install a swing and swing from right to left, and that...
Johnny Presents. With an ear cupped to tobacco trade gossip-which had Philip Morris' sales slipping-President Alfred E. Lyon gave out a preliminary report of the 1947-48 fiscal year. Both gross and unit sales were up over the preceding year, said Al Lyon, thanks to a sharp increase in the last two months (last year's gross...
...hard core and leadership are Communist. But the KKE (pronounced coo-coo-ay) seldom admits that it controls the guerrillas, and refers to them as a "democratic force fighting against monarcho-fascists." Last year one member of the Greek Politburo earned a sharp rebuke from his comrades by boasting that "KKE has birds which sing in the mountains...
More for Farmers. Despite the sharp drop in commodity prices last month, farm income in the first quarter of this year is expected to reach a peak of $6.4 billion. For farmers, the only effect of the commodity drop, reported the Department of Agriculture, was to cut the size of their increase over 1947 from 12% for the month of January to an estimated 6% for the first quarter...