Word: toms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Feathered Tom. The parade of White House callers included all sorts of men on all sorts of missions: labor leaders, turkey growers, Senators, foreign diplomats, politicians, old friends, ax-grinding congressmen, lobbying mayors and gift-bearing citizens. A delegation from Truman, Minnesota (which had voted against him, 267 to 241) dropped in to invite the President to attend the town's 50th anniversary...
...When they uncrated the big, bronze, 40-lb. Minnesota bird and the bred-down ("apartment size") 14-lb. white Beltsville turkey on his office porch, a photographer asked the President to chuck one under the chin. He did-and the white turkey got flapping mad. "That's one tom that got into the White House," beamed a bystander, "and he's a turkey." The President grinned...
...Estimated royalties: $2,000,000 a year. The peace pact was tentatively drawn two months ago. It was held up to make sure that it did not violate the Taft-Hartley Act, which bans the paying of royalties into union-controlled welfare funds. The solution, approved by Attorney General Tom Clark: an independent fund with a nonunion administrator...
Wrong Decision? U.S. Rubber Co., which had just been fined $5,000 for conspiring to fix prices at home (TIME, Nov. 1), was in trouble again for its doings in the international market. Attorney General Tom Clark filed an antitrust suit against U.S. Rubber, its British subsidiary, Consolidated Rubber Manufacturers Ltd., and British Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd. The charge: that the three companies had divided up the world rubber market, and prevented the unlimited flow of rubber products into...
...springboards for psychological thrillers. In fact, the theme has become so familiar that a relatively new visual idiom has been worn down into a bag of movie cliches (the close-up of the vague eye, the trick shot of all outdoors whirling round & round, the heart beating an audible tom-tom, the psychiatrist with his smooth sofa-side manner...