Word: put
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...some superior showgirls, Bless You All is sleek and satiny to the eye. But if that adds to the charm, it accentuates the mediocrity: it denies Bless You All the licensed bonhomie and sloppiness of an intimate revue. Even Negro Singer Pearl Bailey's enormous natural charm is put in double jeopardy by her wearing a flossy evening dress while struggling with flat material...
...average $1.46 a box or 39% of parity, and before the Government could control oranges the price would have to rise to $3.70 a box. Similarly, milk would have to go up 13%, wheat 15%, corn 17%, butter fat 18% and potatoes 51% before price ceilings could be put...
...ordered new car prices rolled back to the Dec. 1 level-and kept there for at least three months. After the Government had studied the situation carefully, the price structure would be reviewed to see if the auto companies were entitled to the increases they had tried to put into effect...
...that prices of an end product cannot be effectively controlled unless prices of all the raw materials going into it are also held down. To be successful in his attempt to control auto prices, Valentine would have had to control prices and wages all down the line-in fact, put the lid on a major segment of the entire U.S. economy. The auto industry consumes 20% of the nation's steel, and huge quantities of rubber, paint, fabrics, copper and almost every other major raw material...
Died. Agnes Repplier, 95, leading U.S. woman essayist; in Philadelphia. A cat-loving, chain-smoking spinster, she began writing at 30. To U.S. readers, who never put much store by the polite, personal essay, she managed to convey the impression that she was from another country. But she acquired an audience that remained fond of her well-bred talent for taking graceful potshots at varied targets...