Word: turndowns
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...year, because "we didn't have the dope in front of us as to what we would be getting for what we were spending," he had been doubtful about the H-bomb, he added. But "as the facts came in, my attitude did change." One guess on the turndown was that Pike, a liberal Republican, had piqued the Senators in a speech last summer when he suggested that political patronage sometimes influenced their dealings with AEC. He had also made a wry comment last May after Ed Johnson's blurting, on a television quiz show, of the first...
...Brother Jimmy was sick & tired of the close watch the police had put on him. Furthermore, Benedict knew he could not hide much longer because his money was running out. First Jimmy tried to persuade a prominent public figure to accept Benedict's surrender, but got a turndown. A few weeks ago, Jimmy went to Columnist Winchell, made a deal with him to accept the surrender. While the details were being worked out, Winchell, always a shrewd showman, broadcast two more "appeals" to Benedict Macri to give up. Last week the columnist told the New York Mirror...
When he left for Independence, Mo. and Christmas at home, the President had not indicated which side he took. If he should ask Congress for higher taxes, he was apt to get a flat turndown. The President was about ready to give in to congressional appeals for a reduction of wartime excise taxes, would probably agree to removal of federal taxes on such items as transportation, fur coats and jewelry.* But in return he would insist that Congress make up the loss by raising taxes elsewhere-say on corporations, which, as every Congressman knows, have no vote...
...words; 13-year-old Donald could barely dress himself. They were tragic "in-betweens," not quite eligible to enter even Denver's special schools for retarded children, yet not so hopeless that they had to be shut away in a state institution. Said stouthearted Joe, after his last turndown: "If there's no school 'that can help my kids, by golly I'll build one myself...
...year ago and Bethlehem's up 1.9%, Allegheny Ludlum was in the red, Republic and Inland's nets were off 23%, Jones & Laughlin's 44%, and ten other companies showed corresponding decreases. Nearly all the oil companies were down and many another industry showed a turndown when compared with 1948's third quarter, an alltime record...