Word: chunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Busy Board" gains the lion's share of the profits of the Crime. Business and Advertising Managers, the executive posts of the Senior year, make up to $1,000 during their year in office, and the Freshman and Sophomore editors divide a sizeable chunk among themselves...
...time on 30 days' written notice, it also meant little from the longterm, post-war economic viewpoint. Two days after the signing, Argentina agreed to sell her entire exportable beef surplus (500,000 tons) to Great Britain. Added to other heavy British purchases, that meant another sizable chunk of sterling credits frozen in London. When these are thawed by peace, Argentina undoubtedly will do her shopping in Europe. Supporting reasons: lower costs, better terms, partial European control of normal Argentine trade...
...about $2,000,000,000 - 22% of all U.S. retail food sales. This is the estimate presented last week by the U.S. Census Bureau's John Guernsey to a Philadelphia convention of the Super Market Institute (owners of more than 1,000 markets). How much larger a chunk of the nation's food bill super markets might eventually get, no one could guess. The U.S. had 9,250 super markets at year's beginning, has 10,100 now, is getting more all the time...
...Congress was getting itself out on a creaky limb. If Russia were suddenly to go down before the Nazis, just as the U.S. Army was well broken up, Congress would be in a fix much worse than mere embarrassment. Hitler would then have all of Europe and a big chunk of Asia. And the U.S. would be armed only with the tongues of its Congressmen...
...July 1933 the corn-hog problem was a big chunk of the whole farm problem. Wickard became a member of a committee representing the corn-hog States, talked so earnestly in Des Moines that Al G. Black, then head of the Department's corn-hog section, was impressed. He asked Wickard to come to work in Washington...