Word: takings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fairless blew off like a Bessemer converter. Did Murray think he could take him by the nose and lead him to a contract? Promptly and plainly he told Murray off. He would negotiate, but with no commitment in advance to accept anything. That was the basis on which Fairless had agreed to meet with the fact finders in the first place; the board itself had reiterated that details should be worked out in company-by-company bargaining. If that didn't suit Murray, then a steel shutdown would be on Murray's head. Up to that point Fairless...
Everyone figured that Harry Truman would take his time selecting a new justice for the Supreme Court. But when newsmen trooped into the President's press conference last week, just five days after the death of Justice Wiley B. Rutledge, the President announced that he had already picked his man. The new justice would be Judge Sherman Minton of the U.S. circuit court of appeals, onetime big voice in New Deal mob scenes, onetime Senator from Indiana, longtime fast friend of Missouri's ex-Senator Harry Truman...
...Lard. Big Mike had been in bad odor ever since his election last November; people just wouldn't take the trouble to understand him. He had gotten elected, for instance, by running on the Democratic ticket as a former University of Michigan football player, and a patriot who had served 6½ years in the Marine Corps. Then it developed that he had never been to Michigan, had been a marine only 23 months (before Pearl Harbor), and had been parted from the service after three courts-martial...
What Every Woman Knows. In one sense, of course, Lisa Fonssagrives would never stop. If her face should disappear from the magazines tomorrow, other faces would crowd to take its place and the American public would scarcely know the difference. For the model is more than an individual; she has become a type and an inevitable part of the American scene. She is everywhere; she smiles down from mountains and from steely skyscraper façades, from billboards and from the most exclusive bars. She is no longer an enticing stranger; the American is fond of her, sometimes irritated...
...women dissatisfied with reality. She proclaims that homeliness is a sin and unnecessary. Her every image assures men that women look like goddesses, while their experience tells them that women only look like women. She assures the women, in their turn, that they can clean a two-story house, take the children to school, make a dress at home, cook a four-course meal, wash the dishes, and then slip into an opera gown, make brilliant conversation and look as ravishing...