Word: chunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with classical dancing, at which they were also very good. The little King's affairs continued to deteriorate. When World War II started, he sent his son, another Sisowath, to fight in France. Such loyalty did not prevent the mediating Japanese, in March, from breaking off a succulent chunk of his sun-broiled satrapy, handing it to hostile Thailand. Last week, at his capital Pnom-Penh, weary Préa Bat Samdach Préa Sisowath Monivong Chamcha-Vrapong Harireach Barmintor Phou-vanay Krayveofa Sulalay Préa Chan Crung Campuchea Tippedey died...
Whether Kaiser can go ahead with his plant program depends on 1) whether the Government will help his financing with a big chunk of RFC cash, 2) whether the Government will give him priorities on the steel he needs to build his plants. With the Army, the President and several busy New Dealers keen for more West Coast steel, he figures he has at least an even chance for both. If not, he hopes that the possibility of new competition will help convince established steelmakers of the need for expansion...
...America art in the National Gallery. Most of it is Italian. It was owned, not made, by Messrs. Melton, Kress, and Widener. These men scoured it from the galleries of Europe--the Communists sold Mr. Mellon a lot of the old Czarist collection in return for a big chunk of his aluminum fortune. This is how the National Gallery got its start, but it isn't the way art is made...
Rationing in both occupied and unoccupied France was already tightened to the limit. With his daily food card a Frenchman could buy each day only half a loaf of bread, a chunk of meat the size of a half dollar, a few crumbs of cheese, enough potatoes for five slices if fried (and if he had something to fry them in), less than enough sugar to sweeten a cup of unobtainable coffee, less than enough butter to fry an egg (if he could find...
...WCNW, and WMBQ, a trio of aerial small fry from Queens and Brooklyn, to the same spot on New York's crowded band. It suggested that they split up their time as fairly as possible. Promptly the trio began to squabble, resorting to any device to make their chunk of time more profitable than their rivals'. Jam-packed with advertising, loaded with corny stuff, their programs brought little pleasure to the listening public...