Word: throughly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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¶ Ordered at long last strict controls on all goods destined for Red China, Hong Kong or Macao. Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer also controlled war-potential goods passing through U.S. ports en route to Russia and satellites.
But this week the congressional chorus began to march on the stage to take an active part in the show. From the House Ways & Means Committee came the Administration's excess-profits bill, voted out over the fruitless protests of Republican members, economists and businessmen (see BUSINESS). But in...
¶ Old-fashioned carols rolled forth as usual, but in some parts of the U.S. the age seemed to be catching up to Santa Claus. Dallas' big A. Harris & Co. department store had converted roly-poly Santa into a tall, flat-flanked cowboy, who rode in a buckboard instead...
Any improvements Draper might make would be welcomed by case-hardened daily commuters-300,000 of them scattered from Montauk to Manhattan. But some of the jostled and jaded, who have been through Long Island "reorganizations" before, reserved judgment when they heard that Draper might keep resigned Trustee David Smucker...
Call Me Patton. George soon became a familiar figure in Miami's upholstered nightclubs and casinos. He changed his name to Patton, although he was known around town as "George the Greek." Despite his new-found affluence, nobody bothered to invite George when the Kefauver crime investigating committee visited...