Word: batch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only they know the secret drop formula. Twice a year William retires behind locked doors, mixes a large batch of concentrate, enough for six months' production. Robert says only that it contains some charcoal "to sweeten the stomach" and some licorice "to soothe the throat...
They were the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee, which had set itself the task of writing a whole new batch of labor legislation. They knew most of the testimony by heart; they had heard it over & over again. But it was an old American custom to give everyone his say. Industry had had its inning...
...equipment is coming in bit by bit," Dwyer relates, "and we are giving service as it is available." While predicting another batch of satisfied applicants around March 1, Dwyer makes no promises for any service before April, when he expects to have received the required apparatus...
...first big batch of returns came in last week. And U.S. industry found that, despite strikes, shortages and controls in 1946, actual profits lived up to the great expectations. The big boost came in the final quarter of 1946. Then, the Department of Commerce estimated, production had increased to such a peak that the national income (wages, rents, net corporate profits, etc.) was at a rate of $173 billions annually v. $164 billions for the whole year...
...There's a young chap in my office," she told him, "with a letter from John McCutcheon." Patterson groaned: "What, another fraternity brother?" Said Mollie: "But this is the one who does Dickie Dare" Her sons had sold her on Dickie, and she had given the boss a batch of the strips to look...