Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first reaction of congressional listeners was one of stunned amazement. Politics had, quite obviously, played an important part in the message. Harry Truman had hoped to catch the Republicans over a barrel. He had certainly caught them off base...
Cold Pistol Barrel. The Sachsenhausen prisoners, ranged in two rows in a playpen-like dock, made no attempt to deny their crimes. Some of them, doubtless under Russian influence, talked like the accused in 1937 purge trials. "I got into this net of criminality," said dark, intense August Hoehn, the camp second-in-command. (In one day, Hoehn had hanged, gassed and shot 510 prisoners in petulance over a superior's rebuke.) "I got so tangled in its strands, I couldn't go back. At the mere thought I could feel the cold barrel of a pistol...
Buckling Oil Line. The rise of 20? a barrel in crude oil prices caused Standard Oil Co. of Indiana to boost its wholesale price on supply-pinched oil products by as much as 1½ a gallon. Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey still held the price line. But it adopted an allocation plan for its dealers...
...increase was set off by Phillips Petroleum Co. Short of crude, it offered producers 20? a barrel above the current price. Within a few days, scores of other U.S. refineries had been forced to follow Phillips' lead or lose out on their oil. But no oilman thought that the increased price would mean more oil. Four months ago, Big Jersey's President Eugene Holman had talked down a price rise as a production incentive. By holding the line then, Jersey had temporarily forced the entire industry to hold the price line (TIME, June...
...either of them gets hurt tomorrow, Harlow will have to use the still-shaky Nick Rodis, scrape the bottom of the Varsity barrel, and-or dip down into the Jayvee pool. Doug Bradlee and Rocky Stone will probably have ample opportunity to show their talent against the Indian tackles...