Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jefferson to his defense. Refusing to say whether he had been a Communist, he declaimed: "What was good enough for T.J. is good enough for me." "I assume," said Ferguson, "that by T.J. you mean Thomas Jefferson ... It is not a legal reason [for not answering]." Spindell tried another tack: like the other witnesses, he refused to answer on the grounds that it might incriminate him. "Thank God," he concluded, "for the Fifth Amendment...
...Louis, Stuart Symington, the Democratic nominee for Senator from Missouri, filed his expenses for a hard-fought campaign. The total: $15,070, which included $6.63 spent for a stepladder used to tack up campaign posters...
...pretense, except for some cheerful whistling by Commerce Secretary Charlie Sawyer, that the big ($500 million-plus) steel wage boost would not have to be paid for by the customer. The OPS flooded with demands for higher ceilings by 1,800 manufacturers, got ready a "pass-through" letting them tack on their higher costs from the $5.20-a-ton price boost in steel, plus additional markups for higher copper and aluminum prices...
...plants as Benrus, Bulova, Gruen and Longines-Wittnauer, was quick to point out that out of every dollar spent in the U.S. for a Swiss watch, 85? stays in this country; only 15? goes to Switzerland. It was estimated that for every dollar the U.S. Tariff Commission may tack on to Swiss movements, the U.S. consumer will have to pay about $6 more the next time he buys a timepiece. Actually, the matter is more than an argument over watches: the outcome may well serve as an indication of the U.S.'s willingness to trade with the rest...
Died. Gene ("Old Tack") Howe, 66, publisher (1926-50) of the Amarillo Globe and News, whose daily column, "The Tactless Texan," was standard fare to thousands in the panhandle; by his own hand (gunshot); in Amarillo (see PRESS...