Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Impose price ceilings on essential cost-of-living items ("food, clothing, fuel and rent") and basic industrial materials. ¶ Ration basic cost-of-living items "as a preparedness measure." ¶ Prevent wage increases ("although I believe there would be few occasions for its use"). ¶ Extend and strengthen rent controls...
...Isaacs has gone butterfly hunting with a battery of 12-inch guns. The order . . . will require the use of some of the most formidable powers that have ever been taken by a British Government in time of peace...
...savvy college publicity man looks around to see what positions are sewed up before he starts building up a candidate. This season, with Notre Dame's great Quarterback Johnny Lujack in circulation, it was not much use ballyhooing another quarterback. Weeks ago, the West Coast boys began beating drums for a U.C.L.A. end, Tom Fears. When Fears was injured, the drums suddenly stopped throbbing. It was almost too late in the season to proclaim another hero, but U.C.L.A. is now doing its manful best to boost Guard Mike Dimitro. The surest West Coast bet is another end, Southern California...
Just Hit It. Unlike Hagen, Demaret helps out his opponent with cries of "Great shot." The Haig was a deliberate time-waster, rattling his foe by taking great pains in lining up easy shots. Hagen confessed once: "What's the use of fooling around with shots you don't think you can make. . . . But when you get an easy one, study it, measure it, give it the business. Then when you make it; just as you knew you could all the time . . . everybody cheers...
...Ridders and Colonel Ames, it seemed that the Journals were made for each other. Both were businessmen's bibles; both had a pious regard for the value (and news value) of a dollar. Each had valuable commodity market services and news which the other could use. United, they could afford a bigger network of correspondents, could exchange their news by direct wire. And a merger would add a strong Chicago outpost to the Ridder radio and newspaper empire...