Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they criticized him for his "poor appointments"; most of them overlooked such good selections as George Marshall, Omar Bradley, J. A. Krug, etc. In recent weeks Harry Truman had successfully applied a strong policy towards Russia. But the people did not seem to regard that as a solid accomplishment. Many still grumbled about "letting Russia get away with murder...
...with the arrival of peace Scranton's 140,000 citizens, unwilling to accept a ghost city in a deserted valley, decided to bet a chunk of solid cash on a new future. Spurred on by civic leader Ralph E. Weeks, president of world-famous International Correspondence Schools, they formed a corporation (The Scranton Plan Inc.), wrote a campaign song (Buy Scranton Bonds), and, on street corners, in barber shops and bars, at luncheons and rallies, began collecting $100 pledges...
...became world-famed. Until Edison made his improvement, no one could read the Communist Manifesto, or anything else, under a mellower light. Onetime grocery clerk Pratt eventually joined up in Standard Oil with onetime bookkeeper Rockefeller. When he died in 1891, Pratt was Brooklyn's richest citizen, a solid, sharp-faced, goateed, philanthropic Baptist. To his six sons and two daughters he left an 800-acre estate at Glen Cove, on Long Island's North Shore, where they built themselves manor houses...
...bruckers, whose official ration is 1,250 calories a day, looked well-fed and prosperous. Many a middle-class woman looked as though she had just stepped out of "Lanz of Salzburg's" Fifth Ave. window. Of 50 women on Innsbruck's main street, 38 were wearing solid leather ski boots, 41 multi-colored sweaters, 43 stockings as well as ski socks...
...Washington last week the farm bloc started playing patty cake with parity again. The Russell-Pace rider to the minimum wage-increase bill was purely & simply a scheme for inflating the parity price formula by the addition of farm wages. To the farmer it would mean a solid 33% boost. March's parity wheat prices, for example, would be upped from $1.58 to $2.10; the nation's overhead food bill would go up $4.5 billions...