Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What would decontrol do in the nation's most pressing shortage and biggest black market-housing? It would probably be impossible to maintain the $10,000 sales price ceiling on new houses-the nub of Wilson Wyatt's program for veterans' housing. Instead, the Housing Authority's emphasis might be put on incentives to construct low-rental units...
Precedent bore out Kalleck's observation. On 27 previous occasions U.S. Presidents had had to contend with at least one branch of Congress controlled by a hostile party. The father of Senator Robert Taft had spent two particularly anguished years of deadlock. A sick and beaten Woodrow Wilson had watched an antagonistic Republican Senate reject his League. Hapless Herbert Hoover had scolded and quarreled while a Democratic House hamstrung him throughout the desperate end of his divided Administration...
...shepherded the people squarely into the middle of international politics, and the people, after some backing & filling, approved. The Republican horse that galloped across the country on Election Night had had some ghostly riders-Henry Cabot Lodge and "a little group of willful men" who killed Wilson's League; Reed Smoot, Joseph R. Hawley and the high-tariff men who started a world economic...
...knows that, on a clear day, the sea looks blue when looked at from a low angle: it is merely the blue sky reflected in the water's surface. But Dr. Francis A. Jenkins of the University of California and Dr. Ira S. Bowen, now director of Mt. Wilson Observatory, announced this week that they knew why deep water is also blue when looked at from above at close range...
...over ceiling prices all down the line. But black markets and many bottlenecks would be ended and prices of some items-i.e., nails-would drop under black market prices. ¶ Electrical appliances, such as small motors, would go up slightly, though General Electric's President Charles E. Wilson had "no fear of runaway prices." ¶ Rents, though still controlled, might be permitted to rise in some places. But not much. OPA's figures showed that landlords, even under full controls, were doing 24.9% better this year than in 1939, thanks to lower maintenance costs. ¶ Government allocations...