Word: chips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Complicated & Simple. Yet, if fuzzy, Yes was by no means foolish. In its chip-shot fashion, it possibly came closer to revealing a French family disrupted by clashing political loyalties than something more dynamic and excitable would have done. Playwright Stein, who spent the war among such people, wanted "the audience to realize that French families were divided as our American families were divided in the Civil War, and it is complicated and simple." In Yes, Henry and his young brother Ferdinand become part of the Resistance; Henry's wife and her aristocratic family are pro-Pétain...
...Chips to Cash. Until she reaches the point where Britain and the U.S. are really ready to resist, Russia will try to cash every chip she can while the world is still unsettled. The men in the Kremlin, who have an eye for history and long-range trends, know well that Russia can expand far more readily in the unsettled 19405 than in the 19505, when the peace treaties will have been written and the world's pattern solidified...
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Frank Joseph Habig easily got 27 fellow marines at Cherry Point, N.C. to chip in $40,000 to back his plan to fly fresh seafood from seaport towns to the Midwest. Last November his Airborne Seafoods, Inc. bought a DC-3. Last week, Airborne was still looking for its first pay load...
Jack Benny, who makes self-ridicule pay, carried a $10,000 chip on his shoulder last week. The wag from Waukegan asked NBC listeners for 50-word statements be ginning "I can't stand Jack Benny because...." The contest began as a scriptwriter's gag, but Benny took it seriously. Jack will be able to pay the prize money, without damage to his skinflint radio reputation : it will all be chargeable to program promotion, deductible for income...