Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the State Department peremptorily called a halt. It ruled that the visas of 17 Iron Curtainers were no longer valid, ordered the men to leave the country as soon as possible. Before they left, the visitors got a quick look around, and did a little shopping. One night Composer Shostakovich slipped quietly into a balcony seat at a Manhattan concert to hear the forbidden "formalist" music of Hungary's late Bela Bartok...
...Navy's air arm should be decided. Anyone who objected, he said, "would have a chance to argue me out of that conclusion in the next couple of days." After that anyone who still disagreed would get out. Said Johnson: "There will just not be room for them around the Pentagon and I told the three secretaries that...
...thought there was a much better chance of congressional approval now than last year, when a similar agreement died in the Senate. Then U.S. farmers, with wheat bringing $2.60 a bu., laughed down the proposed world price of $2 a bu. Now the price of wheat was down to around $2.25 a bu. and-with a huge carryover and another bumper crop in prospect-a price of $1.98 might soon look good...
...Tiffany's shares, which paid $35 in dividends last year, were split once before (in 1920) at 5 to 1; in the last 20 years they have sold as high as $3,200, never lower than about $200. The new split will bring them down to around $40, enabling present holders, when faced with inheritance or income-tax problems, to sell them more readily...
...whole world ... I often get letters addressed to the Reverend George B. Shaw. You can deceive people some of the time, but they ultimately discover your true vocation . . . What if the central figure [in a play] is a man of wealth and very old? And . . . people gather around to advise him what to do with his money? The joke will of course be, that there is no such thing as a wealthy person nowadays...