Word: six-month-old
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Even where Henderson had imposed ceilings, there was no stopping the upward trend. When he "suggested" fair prices for gasoline at Northeastern Seaboard filling stations last week, most dealers kept selling for at least ½? higher. Henderson himself admitted that the six-month-old steel scrap ceiling was generally ignored and threatened to "crack down" (but he did not say with what...
Last week was bad for Price Administrator Leon Henderson. It was a week in which a six-month-old price rise (led by agricultural commodities) gathered speed...
When Manhattan reporters asked his views on French politics, crafty little onetime French Premier Camille Chautemps, who conveniently charged himself with a private mission to the Americas during the Riom trials, lifted his six-month-old daughter Antoinette from her nurse's arms, held her aloft for all to see, replied: "Look, gentlemen. There is the greatest work of my life...
...allotment for Hollywood-made training films-ten-minute shorts to educate doughboys on how to greet an officer, how to don a gas mask, how to load a howitzer, other essentials of soldiering. Picking up its cue like a trooper, the industry called out its restless, time-marking, six-month-old Motion Picture Defense Committee, headed by Paramount Vice President Y. Frank Freeman...
...Valencia last week the six-month-old Government of greying, pugnacious Premier Francisco Largo Caballero fell. In the midst of the political crisis a flight of Rightist warplanes swept in from the open Mediterranean raining light bombs. They wrecked a streetcar, smashed windows, killed the cook and wounded the doorman of the British Embassy...