Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the still missing paintings are, I feel sure, tucked away in the slum dwellings around the Führerbau...
Presumably, too, the Administration was dead set against another round of wage increases (see BUSINESS), but it just couldn't bring itself to say so. In trying to write around this painful subject, the President's economic advisers composed some masterful doubletalk. Sample: At the present time both employers and workers should strive to work out adjustments which will help to stimulate activity, bearing in mind the need both for holding business costs down and for maintaining consumer purchasing power at high levels...
Leopold generally gets up before 8, takes a short walk around the estate, or a quick dip in the lake. Then he reads his mail, confers with his secretaries. His meals are moderate; he takes little meat, likes vegetables and fruit, drinks mineral water or fruit juices...
...shares in the first quarter of this year, an increase of 26% over 1948. Said Edmund Brown Jr., president of Manhattan's fast-selling Fundamental Investors, Inc.: "May was the biggest month in our history and June was almost as big. Last year's business was around $10,000,000; this year we're running at the rate of $12 million." The open-end trust business, combined with the $1.7 billion assets owned by the so-called "closed-end" trusts, is now a $3.2 billion giant...
...year-old J. B. Faucher complained to the court that he had wanted his son to grow up strong, had built the boy a set of barbells for weight-lifting exercises, eventually found that his i 19-year-old had become a "monster and a bully who orders me around...