Word: yowls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fierce yowl drifted in from the street. "That's my son, Reecy," Mrs. Horan said, calmly. She went...
...grain trader, Cargill, Inc., let out a yowl. Cargill, famed for cornering corn in 1937, had again bought heavily in corn, anticipating the OPA action. Now, with six million bushels on hand, it stood to lose "in excess of $1 million" if it could not sell grain on its futures contracts at the new ceilings. Cargill sued the Board of Trade for treble damages...
...yowl of anguish shook the rafters. Miss Sylva valiantly spoke the moderately funny lines for which the banana business had been a cue, but they were completely drowned in the hubbub. A perfectly good banana had been sacrificed to make-believe...
From Omaha's Chamber of Commerce came a yowl of rage. "The OWI description implies that the Midwest is a drought-stricken, poverty-ridden territory. It gives no thought to the important contribution Nebraska has made to the winning of the war. Nor does it take into consideration the rapid industrial expansion of the Midwest in recent years...
Senators, especially those up for reelection, shuddered as they thought of the teetotal sentiment they might have to face back home. They could have saved their shudders. The yowl of the nation's wets was a little late, but it was loud...