Word: well
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well-informed student of international trade, but it seems to me that Britain's inability to earn dollars is at least partly the result of our tariffs . . . While the suspension of tariffs would by no means balance the British budget, it would give British products a better chance to sell, and, conceivably, give Britain more of a chance to earn what she spends. Therefore I think it unjustified to omit our tariff system when discussing the causes of Britain's economic situation...
...President's office, Board Chairman Carroll Daugherty, New Dealing professor of business economics at Northwestern University, polished his rimless glasses. Judge Samuel Rosenman, onetime adviser to Franklin Roosevelt, removed his hat from his large, pompadoured head. David Cole, Paterson, N.J. lawyer and veteran mediator, dressed in a well-draped tan suit, paused to pass a word with reporters. Then the three of them went in to the President to discuss their findings and point out their salient conclusions...
Over & beyond all that was the matter of the national welfare. "A wage increase in steel," the fact-finders reasoned, "would be urged as a pattern to be followed in other industries; this in turn might well cause price dislocations . . . interruptions to production might ensue." Steel workers themselves "would run the risk of losing more than they had gained." Said the board: "In general, it seems desirable at this time to stabilize the level of wage rates . . . the union [should] withdraw its request for a general increase in rates...
Ward, a 6 ft., 200-lb. Boston Irishman, learned to keep his eye on the ball while winning New England's golf championship in 1930. Since 1931, when Maine's Sanford Mills and Goodall Worsted Co. first decided to make Palm Beach suits as well as Palm Beach cloth, Ward has been running their suitmaking subsidiary, the Goodall Co. Five years ago he consolidated his position by buying control of the mills and merging them into a new parent company, Goodall-Sanford Inc., with himself as president...
Filmed on German locations, Male War Bride uses well-photographed landscapes as backdrops for its pratfalls and manages somehow to turn occupied Germany into a comic-opera set, peopled by quaint peasants and toy soldiers. With no dialogue worthy of deft Comedian Grant, it makes its major bid for comedy by turning him into a female impersonator...