Word: subbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congress' Answer. In the general House revolt the little understood question of subsidies had become a rallying cry. This puzzled citizens who had not watched the fight closely. Why did the idea of sub sidies, successful in Britain, make Congress...
Hoover's Answer. After killing sub sidies, Congress was pushing for enactment of the Fulmer bill, which would centralize under one responsible head the functions of food production, distribution, prices, rationing. In this they heeded Herbert Hoover, who praised the bill...
...must have in my position a man who can wholeheartedly advocate and defend the program of broad general sub sidies. ... I cannot do this for the reason that I do not believe such subsidies will be effective in controlling inflation unless they are accompanied here, as they are in England, by current tax and savings programs that drain off excess buying power, and by tight control and management of the food supply...
...been called to the "nut factory." His service record in the surface ships was clean. The psychiatrist's questions gave him no clues. But his answers and his scores in the preliminary written tests told the tale. The sailor was healthy, intelligent and eager for sub duty, but he was not the type. Within the hour, he was off the Base, his papers marked "immediate sea duty...
...submarines, every man is his brother's keeper. Submariners must be healthy and intelligent, but, more important than everything else, they must be emotionally well-balanced. The strain of a war patrol is too great for the man with quirks, for sourpusses or incurable practical jokers. Thus sub men have an air of pipe-smoking imperturbability and quiet good humor that no other group of fighting men can match...