Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lack of music, trumpeting and general fanfare became the subject of official notice today. C. Bascom Slemp, national committeeman from Virginia, broke in on a conference of the Hoover board of strategy today to suggest that something be done. 'Give 'em music,' Slemp pleaded, 'and they'll forget the depression...
...between flare-ups, the committeemen listened to lectures on education, agriculture, highway safety, taxes, fishing and the ladies' handbag industry. At last they faced the most explosive subject of all: civil rights...
Haircuts rose from $500,000 to $780,000 in a week. China's banks refused loans on anything but raw materials subject to quick sales. In Shanghai a housepainter insisted on payment in advance lest the price charged for the whole job fail to cover the cost of paint. Most salaries were geared to a monthly cost-of-living index, but the index ran hopelessly far behind prices in the spiraling race to oblivion, and China's housewives well knew that months would pass before present prices were reflected in their husbands' paychecks. Since to keep their...
...chief issues: the shortage of U.S. dollars, freight-rate increases, the $2,175,000,000 budget. All had been handled the easy way, by voting "yes" to the Cabinet's decisions. The high cost of living was talked about by everybody, then sidestepped; so was the touchy subject of Canada's ban on margarine...
...week starting Friday, July 9. Times are E.D.T., subject to change...