Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Acheson sat down and made notes on what he thought the U.S. reply should be to a proposal it had never officially received. Next day, he went over his draft with President Truman, who, like his Secretary of State, only knew what he read in the papers...
...Many thought they heard a faint warning when the Bureau of the Census announced that employment had fallen off by 700,000 jobs since December, and that another 2,000,000 people were working less than full time. Actually, this sounded worse than it was. January employment is always less than December's, when the Christmas trade is glowing; 351,000 more were in jobs than were working in January 1948. Wholesale food prices were also dropping sharply-the Dun & Bradstreet wholesale food price index was the lowest since...
...whole trouble, Harry Truman thought, was just a matter of semantics (see EDUCATION). "Instead of the word 'planning,' the people who find fault with us when we talk about planning for economic purposes are thinking about controlled economy, not planned economy. The distinction is different, if you analyze it closely...
...labor committee, chairmanned by Utah's bald and scholarly Elbert Duncan Thomas, sat Mrs. Taft placidly knitting on a sweater for a grandson. The expression on her face was a gauge of the battle's progress. Most of the time Martha Taft looked as if she thought it was going all right...
They stared shrewdly around a Richmond department store while crowds, which had followed them in, stared curiously back. They were offered a free shirt apiece, unerringly picked the most expensive ones in the showcase. At the camera counter they announced, this time a little apologetically, that they thought the Germans made better photographic equipment than the Americans. Pirogov was openly enthusiastic at the sight of pretty models parading past in expensive dresses, but Barsov was doubtful...