Word: meade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...investigation into World War II profiteering, the Senate's Mead Committee began beating the bushes and flushed game all over the field. Prize exhibits from the first week's walk through the underbrush was a pair of brothers named Murray W. and Dr. Henry M. Garrson, who had gone into war contract work with less than a shoestring, come out with a fortune. Flushed with them, if not actually part of the herd, was a U.S. Congressman...
...thought he knew what was wrong was Louis Broido, executive vice president of Manhattan's Gimbel Bros., which has sold more surplus property than any other U.S. retailer. On the basis of this, Broido told the Senate's Mead Committee: all consumer-type surpluses should be sold through big city department stores. Under his plan, surpluses would be sold in the stores, the cash going to WAA. To do the job right, the cumbersome system of priorities for veterans, local governments, educational institutions should be scrapped...
...Buffalo, the sensation-of-the-week was one Edward O'Dea, who toured downtown gin mills after having publicly taken a poke at U.S. Senator Jim Mead. Fort Worth had something to goggle about, too. Publisher Amon Carter. Fort Worth's native sun, moon and stars who embarrasses even Texans by his Texasity. had reserved two whole floors of the Blackstone Hotel for guests at his daughter's wedding. In Atlanta, the Tulip Show made wonderful conversation: it had been necessary to import 45,000 plants because local flowers had bloomed two weeks too soon...
Frank Roberts Mead...
...disposal of billions in U.S. surplus property abroad has been badly mismanaged; it is such a confused muddle now that no one knows, for sure, what is going on. So the Senate's Mead Committee reported last week. What is even worse, said the committee harshly, "The basic problems in the disposal of our surplus war assets abroad remain unsolved. . . . The most favorable period for selling surplus property is now behind...