Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where Is Balance? In the end, the price level will be determined by the size of the market and production. Last week, CPAdministrator John Small, in his monthly report, told more about this than was revealed in the whole bitter OPA debate. The report, covering May, when the effects of the coal strike were still felt, showed very little of the great strides in production made in June. Nevertheless...
...start he gave it, Pressed Steel coasted onward & upward through 30 years of prosperity, during which stockholders drew $38 million in dividends. Over the years Pressed Steel grew staid and conservative, floundered badly in the Big Depression, went bankrupt in 1933, barely survived a bitter reorganization battle, still operated at a loss...
...leads a simple, hardworking life. His wife Maurine is working on an occupation diary, and preparing to organize a U.S. wives' club. His daughter Ann, 19, and his son William, 20, are both in Austria. His pet cocker spaniel Pal is now famed through his master's bitter crack: "Here are the Russians with 150,000 troops and here I am with my cocker spaniel...
...survival of the huge community housing projects which Vienna's Socialists had built for their workers in their brief, triumphant decades before Hitler. The gaunt spire in the center of the city and the workers' fortresslike homes on the outskirts (which Catholic Chancellor Dolfuss shelled in the bitter years of civil discord) were both symbols of Vienna's different pasts. They were also symbols of two sturdy European forces, Catholicism and Socialism. From the present cooperation between them Austria drew some hope and the strength-scarce in Europe today-of holding out against Communism...
London's war-scarred Tate Gallery brimmed last week with the sweet & sour cream of U.S. art: 240 paintings by everyone from the razor-sharp 18th Century Portraitist John Singleton Copley to his blunt-edged fellow Bostonian, bitter, 31-year-old ex-G.I. Jack Levine...