Word: throughly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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¶ Whipped through a bill to extend federal rent control 90 days beyond Dec. 31, thus keeping the lid on rents until the 82nd Congress can get around to making up its mind about it.
¶ Passed the $3.4 billion excess-profits tax bill through the House (378 to 20), and studied it in the Senate.
They talked on Tuesday aboard the presidential yacht after lunch (sea food, soup, roast beef, braised celery, broccoli, beans, chicory salad, cheese & crackers, baked Alaskas, chocolates and assorted nuts). They talked again on Wednesday. At the White House, the Prime Minister passed, twinkling, through the gauntlet of correspondents. In his...
Economic Stabilizer Alan Valentine nervously pushed through the crowd and cached the head table. There before him in the seat of honor was his wage stabilizer, Cyrus Ching, sucking away placidly at his stove-sized pipe. A frown of injured dignity crossed Valentine's face, but he took a...
Washington, gearing for war again, was a different place from the total-war days of just five years ago. Then there had been F.D.R.'s big, bickering collection of powerful organizations-WPB, 0PM, WMC, WLB, OPA and other alphabetical agencies devised for every new area and every crisis. So...