Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pledges & Publicity. On the domestic front, the 80th wrote the first major labor law in twelve years, and redressed the balance between labor and management. It found an equitable formula to reduce taxes. It passed a wise presidential-succession bill (proposed by the President), authorized unification of the services, and showed determination and foresight in overwhelmingly approving a 70-group Air Force in the face of Navy-minded opposition by the Administration. Its unwillingness to control prices reflected its G.O.P. majority's faith in a free economy, its distaste for peacetime controls...
...certainly is not fair or wise to assume that American firms can continue to operate indefinitely in the red . . . We therefore have the choice of finding some way to tide them [U.S. publishers] over-or of relying exclusively on a Government-operated information program...
Basic reforms must be carried out by the ruling parties where necessary, Passer said, adding that "economic aid alone is not wise.... Our military strength, therefore, is the logical complement to the new dollar diplomacy...
...there had been any real question about which horse was king of Calumet, the question was answered. There had never been any doubt in the mind of wise old Ben Jones. Says he: "Unless he has a bad break, I believe you may see the greatest horse of all time before Citation is through...
...finish school, was miserable as a shipping clerk. To curb his restlessness, staid Uncle Andrew Mellon assigned him some oil leases that had turned up in the course of some family deals. To them, William added scores of others. He built a refinery and pipeline, surprised his money-wise family by organizing an integrated oil business which he sold to the Rockefellers in 1895 for about twice what it cost...