Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they had predicted and promised, Republicans gave Harry Truman's massive special session program a quick brush-off. To the surprise of no one, they refused to consider price control or rationing as inflation remedies, gleefully repeated the President's observation of ten months ago that "these are marks of a police state." Their answer to a request for an excess profits tax was a brusque no. Despite Candidate Tom Dewey's personal intervention, they refused to liberalize the provisions of the Displaced Persons bill. The one unarguable gain of the week was approval...
...will was read, Waldrop told Washington newsmen with elaborate offhandedness: "After this meeting I invite anyone who cares to join me in the bar for a drink. For once the drinks are on the Times-Herald" ¶ General Manager William C. Shelton, 55, also named an executor, began at ten as a newsboy, has been with the paper since 1922. "This might show the Russians," he exulted, "that capitalists in this country treat the workers right fine." ¶ Supervising Managing Editor Michael W. ("Mike") Flynn, 59, an owl-faced, Washington-born news veteran. ¶Circulation Director Harry A. Robinson...
...trying to describe the difference between the Press and most other papers, Roy W. Howard once said: "It's a paper with a heart." The heart beats strongly enough to make the Press the healthiest in the chain; the profit is $2,000,000 a year. For ten years the Press (now 280,000 daily) has run ahead of the Plain Dealer (255,000) and News...
...catch is that a bushel of potatoes makes only ten pounds of flour. All told, the flour will cost the Government close to $25.60 a hundred pounds. That is five times what it has to pay for wheat flour. Meanwhile, the retail price of potatoes stands at $2.60 a bushel, twice the 1941 price...
...most spectacular of the new trains is scheduled to make its maiden run next month, when the New York Central System shows off its new $4,000,000 Twentieth Century Limited, the Central's first new Pullman streamliner in ten years. For the New York-Chicago run, the Central has designed a combination businessman's hotel and office, with showers, secretarial rooms, and telephones...