Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over prewar, are now at a rate of $10 billion yearly, while imports, though double prewar, are still lagging at $4.6 billions. This top-heavy unbalance has reduced gold and dollar reserves of foreign nations from $17 billion in 1944 to $6.4 as of last June. Warned Electric Bond & Share's board chairman, Curtis E. Calder in Knox-like tones: unless the U.S. drastically increases its overall imports, the "gap will be filled either by denuding our customers of their limited resources, or by providing them, through loans or gifts, with additional purchasing power...
...some of the immigrants to Cambridge today, a lost weekend may be looming, but not for the local purveyors of bottled in bond who one and all anticipate the usual empty shelves and filled cash tills associated with football fever...
Among the handicapped, there is a bond of ready friendship; they "flaunt their fraternity badges," fraternize wherever they meet. Some members of the fraternity: Actor Herbert Marshall, Playwright Laurence Stallings, Singer Connee Boswell, Planemaker Major Alexander de Seversky, American Veterans Committee's Charles Bolte...
...billion rubles. The budget also: ¶ Estimated Soviet state income at 333.5 billion rubles. Chief sources of revenue: 200.8 billion from a turnover tax on all economic enterprises, 21 billion profit taxes from industry, 23.5 billion individual income taxes (cut from 39.8 billion in 1945), and 25.5 billion from bond issues and bank deposits...
...demanded to be sold four pounds of lard. Lewis thought he overheard someone in the cafe make a critical remark. In the scuffle that followed Buddy Wolfe, father of ten, went down under a blackjack, was shot thrice. Last week Lewis was also free under $2,000 bond. The charge: murder...