Word: belt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sometimes." But once Manager Watson was thrown out of his own theater by one of his customers, and "that is bad for business." At last Watson solved his problem "by using show business and showmanship in the show business." Now he dresses for work in: 1) a Sam Browne belt, 2) a .38 automatic (with three extra clips of cartridges), 3) an iron-claw in a scabbard, 4) a blackjack, 5) a pair of handcuffs, 6) a "very shiny" gold badge, 7) ("on extra busy nights") a 24-in. police club in one hand and a flashlight in the other...
...still smarted from ex-Ambassador Bullitt's lack of tact toward the Soviet Union in 1933-36. For Barney Samuel stood many a plain Philadelphian who was just simply leary of Bill Bullitt's attitude of elegant distaste. But there was a series of below-the-belt assaults on both candidates' patriotism, ancestry and personal morals. From unidentified quarters Bullitt was pictured as 1) Jewish, 2) anti-Jewish, 3) pro-Nazi, 4) antilabor, 5) anti-Soviet. A trashy, sexy, satirical novel authored by Bullitt in 1926 was exhumed and printed serially in the Philadelphia Daily News...
...Feed, outside the corn belt, is scarce and high-priced. With cheap corn being held back by corn-belt farmers to use in the more profitable fattening of hogs, dairymen must scramble for the diminishing stocks of oats and rye. Therefore feed prices have soared to $57 a ton (v. $48 a year ago), and eastern feed bins are almost empty...
...difference, and the conflicting views in these areas, were also known in advance. The U.S.S.R. wants a strong, friendly, de-Nazied Germany, the U.S. and Britain want a weakened Germany. Russia, as her press plainly said last week, refuses even to discuss the Soviet domination of her "security belt" in the Baltic States, eastern Poland, prewar Rumania's Bessarabia, the parts of Finland seized in 1940, all of which belonged to Czarist Russia...
Lots of Smoke. In Virginia's famed Old Belt markets, tobacco companies are scrambling to buy all the leaf they can get. Although hobbled by price ceilings and individual War Food Administration quotas, they have sent prices flipping up like a snapped butt. Low-grade leaf, once worth only a cent a pound, now brings up to 30?. Second-growth "wisps," which growers once did not even bother to cart to market, now find ready buyers. Flue-cured tobacco, mainstay of the industry, is up to 40? a pound, almost double the 1933-41 average...