Word: belt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such was the news from California last week. Distillers Corp.-Seagrams had just bought the Mt. Tivy Winery in Fresno County, was eying three others to boot; agents of Hiram Walker and Fleischmann Distilling were reported hotfooting through the California wine belt (which produces 90% of all U.S. wine) for good properties; the whole industry was abuzz with big deals to come...
...there remained a dispute in WPB about actually calling a halt in the $1,000,000,000-a-month cuts in U.S. civilian production. Since the nation was living on inventories of many goods no longer produced, few U.S. citizens realized how tight the civilian belt now was. Some officials thought it was already too tight for public health and morale; others felt it could stand another notch. Donald Nelson agreed with neither faction, took a down-the-middle view. Said he: "I have no evidence as yet to show that we have trimmed too far. On the other hand...
With both roads turning in better-than-average earnings, stockholders disgustedly dumped their shares on the market, by week's end had sliced some 10% off all Pere Marquette and Nickel Plate issues. But for stockholders patient enough to hang on, Bob Young's belt-tightening should mean much fatter checks later...
...through the flames. Swim as long as you can under water, then spring above the flames and breathe, taking a breast stroke to push the flames away; then sink and swim under the water again. ... To be able to do this, however, you will have to remove your life belt and other cumbersome clothing. . . . The danger of injury from underwater explosion is lessened by swimming or floating on the back...
...sufficient intensity to cause slipping along the coast amounting to six feet in places. ... A third big quake, in 1927, occurred on the main island some 100 miles south of the 1891 quake. . . . Only 3,000 lives were lost since it was not a thickly populated region. The main belt of Japanese quakes runs along the Pacific side of the main island some distance offshore...