Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republicans bought half of Harry Truman's ten points without reservation. They agreed to tackle extension of export and transportation controls immediately. When Congress reconvened in January, it would extend rent control for another year, restore consumer credit controls and take action against inflationary bank credit and commodity speculation...
...Ten v. Ten. When the Republican declaration of policy was made public, it turned out to be more than just another statement. It was the ten-point G.O.P. answer to Harry Truman's own ten-point anti-inflation program (TIME, Nov. 24). It held some surprises...
...Opened Door. Next day, a conference of five Senators and five Representatives sat down to work out a compromise acceptable to both houses. After ten hours of wrangling, Conference Chairman Arthur Vandenberg reported that an agreement had been reached...
...Ten weeks ago, President Truman picked out inflation's villain. The villain was the commodity speculator. Harry Truman said that gamblers in grain were making the cost of living their football. Attorney General Tom Clark and Agriculture Secretary Clinton B. Anderson joined in the booing. Speculators, Clark said, were "profiteering in human misery...
...lights of outdoor Christmas trees-from the 65-ft. Norway spruce in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center (see cut) to front-yard evergreens in ten thousand U.S. cities and towns-began to glow and glimmer brightly in the night...