Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...President got the power to set up priorities on all defense contracts, dole out materials as he thinks necessary, require firms to take defense orders, and requisition materials and property. Hoarders were threatened with a $10,000 fine or a year in prison or both...
...President was also given authority to set up a war board to handle labor disputes, authority to limit transactions in real estate. The Federal Reserve Board was given power to clamp down on easy-term installment buying...
...bill of all the politically inspired "special advantage" amendments (such as Kenneth Wherry's clause guaranteeing reasonable profits to each joint of the meat industry) which had been written in by the Senate. Congress provided that most of the bill's authority must end June 1951, and set up a joint Senate-House watchdog committee to keep an unwinking eye on the President...
...C.I.O., having set adrift eight Communist-line unions (totaling 700,000 members), last week put the last of its Red-led outfits over the side. Expulsion notices were served on the 5,000-member Marine Cooks and Stewards Union and the 75,000 West Coast longshoremen, fishermen and Hawaiian sugar and pineapple workers who are tied in with Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union...
...wounded seriously by German flak in World War II, came back home to serve as $10,000-a-year aide to New Hampshire's senior Senator, Styles Bridges, who is no friend of Tobey's. Last November, Republican Powell announced he was out to beat Tobey. He set up campaign headquarters in the pantry of his Hampton Falls home. He had the encouragement and the help of Styles Bridges' compact New Hampshire political organization...