Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...buying and shipping of EGA grain out of the hands of the Commodity Credit Corp. and turn it over after Dec. 1 to private traders. Last week, in the first major reversal of economic policy since the election, President Truman "requested" Hoffman to go on in the old way, let CCC handle the buying and shipping...
Cheap Money. Wall Streeters had expected that the Treasury Department, worried about inflation, would contract credit by again boosting the rate on its short-term securities, thus paving the way for a rise in interest rates all around. But the Treasury seemed to think that inflationary pressure was dropping; last week it announced that it would continue the present rate on short-term borrowings, and all issues of long-term U.S. Treasury bonds moved above their Federal Reserve support levels...
...galoshes, gloves, coveralls, and mask . . . creeping along the passages . . . waving a magic black box," was unnautical and absurd. When told by one of the monitors that the deck he was standing on was hotter than hell, the Navyman whistled up his scrubmen. They scrubbed and scrubbed, Navy-way -but still the Geiger counters sang...
England's fabulous Sitwells (Osbert, Edith and Sacheverell), now on a visit to the U.S.,* are fast becoming a contemporary legend. Brother Osbert has already distilled four bestselling books out of the way he remembers his father and the family's idiosyncrasies. Now that Miss Sitwell's recent poetry (as well as a series of critical tributes) is being published in America, U.S. readers can see for themselves why sister Edith has become one of England's most highly regarded living poets...
...thin man may soon get a new lease on life from the Public Health School. Dr. Frederick J. Stare, professor of Nutrition, yesterday announced a way to make skinny people fat, but it's not quite perfected yet. In fact, right now it just works on rats...