Word: year
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cardinals, including Manager Eddie Dyer, would rather have Musial; others might outrun him on a straightaway but not around the bases. Slaughter has slowed down this year...
...World's Shmoo." Taft and Malone were in a lonely minority. The only real debate came over an amendment which would retain the "peril-point" procedure added to the bill last year by the Republican 80th Congress. Under this provision, the Tariff Commission determines how far a tariff can be reduced without "threatening serious injury" to the U.S. industry concerned. The President can go below the peril point in negotiating reciprocal trade treaties, but if he does, he must publicly report his reasons to Congress...
...pattern which would undermine the theory of all the hundreds of contributory plans in the U.S. Furthermore, a national pattern of noncontributory programs "would be a fourth round of employee benefits dressed in different clothes." Such a program would cost the steel industry about $200 million a year and would lift the cost of steel, Fairless added significantly, as much...
...make his memoir consistently interesting, Author Paul would have had to present himself as a compelling personality, or his characters as three-dimensional realities. Readers will give him low marks on both counts. Eighteen-year-old Elliot appears only as a set of eyes & ears collecting gossip about the people around him; and the people themselves are named, framed with an anecdote or two, then written off in a few pat parenthetical paragraphs. With a long way to go before his peripatetic life story is brought up to date, Author Paul already sounds a little weary of the whole project...
Power of the Word. In Denver, 63-year-old Nathan Mullin, stopped by two gunmen on his way home from church, routed them by slapping one of them across the face with his Bible...