Word: straightened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American can was in serious trouble. Commissioner Smith asked three other Texas companies to take over General American and try to salvage something, but all refused. Then (as Erwin moved up to board chairman) a new insurance man (William H. Green) was brought in as president to try to straighten out General American's finances...
...Straightening the Question. Before long, the questioning turned to the state of business in the U.S. At a previous conference, the President had said that March would be a key month in determining whether Government would have to take drastic steps to curb unemployment. A reporter, asserting that unemployment had continued to rise during March, asked if the President thought that the Government should adopt some new course of action. First, the President had to straighten out the question: the March figures were not all in, would not be complete for some time. Then he went on to give...
...cannot estimate how much the fee would have to be raised," Whitlock continued. "Our plans are not at all clear now, and will not straighten out until we draw up the library budget...
...straighten out matters for the future, Chalmers has proposed that the people of Benton City and the surrounding towns equip a small, six-bed hospital-clinic. Chalmers will then rent the hospital, get another doctor to join him. He hopes to assure the hospital of some funds by qualifying it as a treatment center for industrial-hospitalization plans. An added proviso: the town will take over Dr. Chalmers' bookkeeping...
...York's Supreme Court moved to straighten out the troubled lives of the two sons of executed Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The boys, Michael, 11, and Robert. 6. were given by the Rosenberg's defense attorney, the late Emanuel Bloch. to a Manhattan couple, Songwriter Abel (Strange Fruit) Meeropol and his wife. The Society for the Prevention of-Cruelty to Children charged that, in the hands of the Meeropols, the two orphans were ruthlessly exploited by Communist groups as fund-raising tools and propaganda sob stories. This week State Supreme Court Justice James B. M. McNally...