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...going to fix bayonets and charge. Fire and keep firing. We've been after these guys a long time. This is our chance...
...class. Whatever she had, when tragedy strikes your family again . . . you're going to want the same job as your dear grandmother got. But it can't be done . . . You'll have to have the wood; won't be any more steel. Sure, we can fix up the inside a little extra-more plush and all-but folks like the outside to have class, and class costs, these days...
...armada of boats and planes scouted his bearing and the general path the DC-4 should have taken. Storm static scrambled radio contact between the search parties; mist and night fog hampered visibility. But toward the end of the second day, not far from the Navy captain's fix, the Coast Guard came on an oil slick and scraps of tangled metal. Close by floated a piece of blue blanket bearing the stencil "N.W." and bits of human bodies-all that remained of U.S. commercial aviation's worst air disaster...
...while President Truman studied the bill, the Federal Trade Commission suggested a helpful way to settle the family fight. FTC asserted, as it had before, that it was already perfectly legal for businesses to absorb freight charges and quote delivered prices as long as they did not conspire to fix prices. Seizing this argument, President Truman at week's end vetoed the bill. "It is quite clear," he wrote, "that there is no bar [at present] to freight absorption or delivered prices as such . . ." Though his bill was killed, Senator O'Mahoney, a master of political agility, greeted...
...eliminate competition. More important, the bill would take business off the defensive. Where the burden of proof now lies on business to show its innocence of any collusion, the new bill would require the Government to prove beyond doubt that an actual conspiracy to fix prices existed. Thus, even if rising prices should result from actions taken individually by companies, the Government would still have to show conclusive evidence that this was done by prior agreement; "good faith" would be a complete defense...