Word: boned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Without waiting for passage of the Bone bill, enabling him to seize foreign patents (TIME, April 27), the President directed Alien Property Custodian Leo Crowley to grab all enemy-owned or controlled patents, of which there are more than 25,000. He also announced that this time, under some not-yet-defined powers, they would not be returned to their former owners after...
...Although the LaGuardia administration has kicked out the spoils system and instituted competitive tests even for big jobs, most of the city's teachers hate Mayor LaGuardia. Reason: he annually cuts the school budget to the bone, has eliminated thousands of jobs. Today there are 2,000 fewer teachers than two years ago; in the budget for the coming year LaGuardia proposes not only to leave vacancies unfilled but for the first time to dismiss some 475 permanent appointees. The Mayor's point: enrollment in the city's schools has dropped nearly 150,000 in the last...
...being "smeared before trial by the official prosecutor" of an antitrust indictment against him) that he stamped out of the room, saying "I refuse to be called un-American ! " But no voice was raised against the bill which these doings were designed to promote. S. 2303, sponsored by Senators Bone (Chairman of the Patents Commit tee), O'Mahoney and La Follette, gives the President power to grab any patent needed for war or national defense, to license it to anyone he cares to for as long as he deems necessary, for payment of a "reasonable royalty fee." One section...
When Hitler's war machine crushed France in ten bone-shattering days, the U.S. looked at its own little Army, nervously debated Lend-Lease. Now a leaner U.S. had its own war machine. Hitler's juggernaut, poised for spring, would soon be only the second greatest. Guarded U.S. estimates placed Nazi war spending at $35,000,000,000 a year, close to the absolute German ceiling of manpower and materials. The U.S., said WPB, is spending at the rate of $30,000,000,000 a year-and just getting started. Soon the U.S. will pass Hitler; next year...
Restless because his asthma failed to respond to Florida sunshine, the Beaver hopped to Nassau to visit the Duke of Windsor and other friends. At dinner one night he broke a tooth on a chicken bone, went to the island's most expensive dentist to have it replaced. At week's end the Beaver returned to Miami Beach, gnawed more chicken bones, broke his new tooth...