Word: arounders
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Soviet propaganda had stepped up the pace of its proof that a depression in the U.S. is just around the corner. With a little imagination, Russian newspaper readers could already see the nefarious U.S. capitalists selling apples on drafty street corners. Among Russia's bigwigs only 70-year-old Eugene Varga, once considered the Soviet Union's foremost economist, did not join the chorus that was sending the U.S. to the wringer...
...daughter for a rest and a couple of congressional hearings on China, took a fighter's view of the whole situation: "I have seen it a lot worse for us in China and the Pacific than even it is now, and I have seen us turn it around and win . . . There are millions and millions of Chinese who don't like Communism and will fight...
...before he got around to blasting the offending Forest, some of Sir Alfred's less conservative colleagues stopped squirming and started shouting. From the back of the room came cries of "That's beautiful!" and "Lovely work!" Munnings turned a shade redder, sputtered: "I hear other members interrupting me ... I am president and I have the right to speak. I shall not be here next year, thank...
...radio program, and has furnished names for countless dresses, dolls, sandwiches, shampoos, kazoos and mops. Cartoonist Young regards himself as a kind of chronicler of "the common man." Says he: "Blondie appeals to people because it is about simple things-eating, sleeping, the business of raising children, happenings around the house...
...owned 6% of Central stock for two years-in effect, a slim working control-the Interstate Commerce Commission has refused to let him exercise control, or sit on the Central's board, because it is illegal for the same man to control two competing railroads. Young might get around this by transferring C. & O.'s holdings in the Central to Alleghany Corp., putting Alleghany's C. & 0. voting power in trust to an outsider, and resigning his board chairmanship of the C. & O. Thus, unless the ICC found some legal barrier, Young would...