Word: toed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later in the week Budget Director Frank Pace Jr. flew in with his troubles. The budget for fiscal 1951, he told newsmen, would be "under $45 billion." He added: "In my judgment the budget cannot be balanced without additional taxes." It was also obvious, though he did not say so...
Nearly two hours later, after long haggling with heavily armed Chinese Communists over the signing of release papers, Mrs. Ward and 18 others of the American Mukden consular family (four, besides Ward, had been jailed by the Communists) were transferred from a sloshing tug to the Lakeland Victory this week...
Angus Ward puffed on a stubby little pipe as he told of living for a month on bread and hot water, two weeks of it in unheated solitary confinement at freezing temperatures. One afternoon, after this "hellish treatment," he was hauled before a Communist court, charged with and convicted of...
Reporters on the ship asked the inevitable question: How does it feel to be back? "Imagine," said Angus Ward, "how you'll feel on the day after Saint Peter lets you in."
When he grew more wheat or collected more eggs than the public would buy at his price, the Government's Commodity Credit Corp. bailed him out. That was all right during the war, when CCC, with $4,750,000,000 to draw on, could sell whatever it bought. Even...