Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unstable mud bottom, State highway engineers figured that an orthodox bridge, without approaches, would cost $18,000,000. Lacey V. Murrow, Director of Highways, and Charles E. Andrew, consulting engineer, decided that a pontoon bridge, approaches and all, could be built for $8,854,400. PWA offered to chip in $3,794,400. Seattle's City Council squeezed through a 5-to-4 endorsement...
Flowing Gold (Warner Bros.) opens with Johnny Blake (John Garfield) moodily waiting in line for a job with a handful of other oil-field "roughnecks." Soon a stranger justifiably snorts: "Boy, you sure got a chip on your shoulder," and Johnny snarls: "Want to try and knock it off?" From then on it is merely a question of waiting to see who hits whom with what...
...Chip Robert, in Des Moines, listening to Vice-Presidential Candidate Henry Wallace (see p. 73), jumped a plane and returned, with a debonair statement on arrival. Said Chip: "I have always been taught to cross my 'Bridges' when I get to them. ... I have been investigated all my life-and by professionals...
...While Chip's plane roared on toward Washington, Franklin Roosevelt was holding a press conference. A reporter wanted to know what about those Navy contracts. Mr. Roosevelt said that he had heard of a good deal of smoke and had seen a good deal of smoke, and that if there were any improper fire behind it he hoped that Congress would go right after it. Newsmen took this to mean that the ax was being sharpened up at last for Chip Robert...
...Dealers, who have been gunning for the Boss's Georgia friend for years, figured this time they might have him. Chip Robert is first of all a businessman. If he were given to understand that there will be no more Government contracts until he quits his job on the Committee, he might resign...