Word: fielding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...ruling might be applied to the grubby crew of witnesses who have defied congressional committees on the same grounds. Some 50 witnesses are currently embroiled with the law and facing jail terms for refusing to answer questions like those put to Mrs. Blau. Among them: Earl Browder, Frederick Vanderbilt Field. The famed Hollywood Ten, however, relied primarily on the First Amendment (freedom of speech) in their refusal to answer the question: Are you a Communist...
...while Hearst's other Los Angeles paper, the Herald & Express, was saying: "The situation is serious but not hopeless . . . With Chinese actually in Korea we can hit back for the first time." Next day, the Herald & Express also got its new orders from the chief. It reversed its field and asked: "Why should our boys die by the thousands in Korea...
...Hurt? Next day FRB's Chairman Thomas B. McCabe read everyone a lesson on the theory and practice of credit controls. First off, said McCabe, Regulation W was doing just exactly what it was supposed to do: "It has limited the rise in prices in the durable goods field [and] has removed some of the pressure which would have hampered diversion of materials and manpower to the military effort." In the first few weeks of the Korean war, said McCabe, the average price of 1949 used cars in the popular-price lines rose from...
Swanson started Standard Coil in 1935 with $1,650 in savings. Later, he lured two partners in, by virtue of "my extreme good looks, my charming personality and my promise that it would pay." Thanks to his knack for production and contacts in the radio field, he kept the promise...
...last year's solid successes in the know-thyself field, The Mature Mind, picked up steam in 1950 and remained a bestseller all year. It gave way, finally, to Dianetics, a gelatinous porridge of poor man's psychoanalysis which was originally dished out, appropriately enough, in Astounding Science Fiction. Equally astounding, and to many critics equally fictitious, was Immanuel Velikovsky's pseudo-scientific Worlds in Collision, an explanation of mythological and Old Testament miracles that turned academic scientists from coast to coast purple with wrath. It made bestseller lists along with Gayelord Hauser's irresistible promise...