Word: pocketbooks
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...defense against the trustbusters, there was no doubt that A & P had substantial public support. Since A & P had been mightily effective in bringing down the price of food, the average U.S. housewife did not need to look any farther than her pocketbook to know where she stood. Even U.S. farmers, who once railed against chain stores, now supported A & P. By cutting the costs of food distribution to the barest minimum, A & P had given farmers a bigger share of the consumer's dollar. For years A & P had carefully cultivated their good will in other ways...
...love is a steady thread through this tapestry of change. It is for a confidence man, named Bonser, a loud and promiscuous swindler with a flair for spending money, a blackguard whose interest in Tabitha lies squarely in her pocketbook. He seduces Tabitha and fails to marry her, yet he appears again and again through her marriage and divorce to bounce her on his knee and ask for a pound or two. She gives him the money and more than that, for Bonser is Tabitha's personal revolt, and her only consistent pleasure...
...only was the Truman program inadequate; it was dangerous, Baruch maintained. "Should this bill be enacted, without price control," he warned, "the Government may get what it wants, but with needless delay and ever-increasing prices. The public will be left to compete for the remainder-with the fattest pocketbook, not the greatest need, deciding who gets what is available. This bill, gentlemen, is an invitation to inflation...
...bitterness and strong division of opinion. But the senses of the meeting was clear-people saw the town as a business enterprise to be conservatively managed. The spokesman for the Finance Committee summed it up: "We want to keep our feet on the ground and our hands on our pocketbook...
This public airing of the issue would be good for the nation's health-and its pocketbook. There was a situation which needed to be remedied. There was no doubt that with its technical and financial resources and social resourcefulness, the U.S. could find a sound remedy. But the hasty enactment of unworkable legislation, creating an unwieldy bureaucracy, was more likely to impair than improve the nation's health. Such a cure would be worse than the disease...