Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said one weathered, veteran, trendwise Democratic Congressman: "There never was a time when the people wanted more to support the President and had a harder time doing it. The ice is thin...
...Thin Ice? The 65 Representatives and the 40 Senators who had returned from the summer recess listened to Franklin Roosevelt's message this week in embarrassed silence. When they heard the President's threat to take executive action unless they gave him a new inflation law by Oct. 1, some sat bolt upright, some grinned, many frowned. At the end there was light, chilly applause. To Congress the President's promise of action in October sounded too much like a threat...
...Thin, nervous, ambitious Don Ramón Serrano Suñer found the road to success was comparatively easy. While his fat-bottomed brother-in-law, Generalissimo Francisco Franco, was crushing Spanish Loyalists, Serrano skulked behind the lines, building up the Falange Espanola Tradicionalista. As head Falangista, Serrano controlled Spain's sole political party with a claimed membership of some 2,500,000. As head of the Ministry of Press and Propaganda he controlled what all Spaniards (supposedly) read and thought. As Minister of the Interior he controlled what they ate and when they went to prison. When...
...placed in sight of one another, or else a bomb or tools in the hands of fast-working coolies would wash the rails away. The Jap seized whole provinces, and found his kind of peace in the towns where he made his headquarters. But where he had to spread thin he found endless strife and the sniping of the guerrilla. There were not enough soldiers in the Japanese Army to hold the tides over which the enemy had raised his flag...
Trouble is, the regular market has often been too slow and too thin to handle large blocks of stock. But five months ago the exchange got a bright idea, set up "special offerings" (i.e., carefully prepared sales) to dispose of large blocks. So far most of these specials have gone over big. Lured by extra-fat commissions, exchange members sold 28,700 shares of General Electric in four minutes; last week they sold 10,000 National Distillers and 5,000 Hercules Powder in less than one minute each...