Word: boned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these items would be available in any quantity before Christmas, but the words rolled on the tongue like bubble sum. Some U.S. citizens even enjoyed knowing that there were no more restrictions on cotton linters, natural resins, green bone glue, horse mane hair and an insecticide named pyrethrum...
...week's end the White House staff was bone-tired. The President looked only a little tired. He had a swim...
Overhead is cut to the bone by renting stage space, keeping only a skeleton staff of eleven people between pictures, paying actors by the hour. But they are paid well and they do the scenes right the first time. Gagged Pine: "We pay the highest salaries in Hollywood-for 20 minutes." Result: Overhead, which amounts to 40% of a film's total cost at M.G.M., is kept at 4% by Pine & Thomas...
...plan's prime point was that Germany should pay first of all with the bone & sinew of German industry-machines, stocks, tools, practically everything except factory buildings. Collecting in this way, the victors would simultaneously recover some of their war losses and weaken Germany's potential for future...
...engine cab for politics, Chifley has not lost his capacity for hard work or his liking for the dark suits all Australian engine drivers seem to wear off duty. As wartime Treasurer, he and his wife set Australians an example in austerity by living on $8 a week. A bone-&-marrow union man, he regards capitalists as "ordinary blokes" who will embrace socialism of their own free will. With Chif at the political throttle, the Commonwealth looked set for another long haul on the leftist limited...