Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Solid & Orderly. Massachusetts' Joe Martin, a politician's politician who as leader of the opposition has had little to do in the last decade except try to keep his guerrillas in hand, would reap his reward and become Speaker of the House. Indiana's Charlie Halleck, a repentant Willkieite now in the Chicago Tribune fold, would become Majority Leader. Illinois' Leo E. Allen, an undistinguished but faithful GOPster, would become chairman of the powerful Rules Committee which controls the House's business...
...Michigan and a number of other large mid-Western colleges. Students are issued season coupon books rather than assignments to a particular seat. Men desiring single seats to any given game are required to exchange their coupons for tickets ten days before the date of the game. A solid cheering section is thus secured. Remaining tickets in the preferred sections are then sold to students who are taking guests. The inauguration of this plan or a modification of it would preserve an all male cheering section and give the ever increasing number of men who find games a wonderful place...
...First Ward was a politician's paradise. Its bawdy districts, "Little Cheyenne" and "the Levee," were solid with gambling joints, peep shows, flophouses and saloons, and harbored the riffraff of half a continent. The First Ward's blocks of bordellos ran from haughty establishments like the Everleigh house (wine: $12 downstairs; $15 in a room), to a "Bedbug Row" of noisome prostitutes' cribs. The jangle of its pianos never stopped...
...Morrison Shift. The Tories looked wan and depressed. After the echoes of senior Party Leader Winston Churchill's voice had died away at their Blackpool conference (TIME, Oct. 14), little solid matter was left. With Conservative Party policy only a. vague outline, the Tories could do little but peck pettishly at Herbert Morrison for using a Government automobile on a vacation trip...
...Leave It, put a new phrase into the language ("the $64 question") and put Eversharp on the map. Then Eversharp found its own $64 answer, a $64 pen & pencil set. In two years, it sold $32,000,000 worth of the new sets, and $4,875,000 of solid gold $125 sets...