Word: dime
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...better judgment of his advisers, Governor Hickenlooper campaigned in 1938 by telling a joke on himself. A drugstore clerk refused to charge 10? worth of asafetida to the Hickenlooper account. "Take it for nothing," said the clerk, "I wouldn't write both asafetida and Hickenlooper for a dime...
...give you some instances. Now I got married when I was a regular man and we said, 'What shall we do to pay up our old bills? If we get married now we'll have the furniture to pay for, and I haven't got a dime.' I said: 'Wait a while and see if I can peel off these debts.' She said: 'I'll work a while and maybe on both salaries we'll catch up.' So it happened that way, and then she was in a family...
After a week of turmoil no one was prepared to say straight out why the semi-Asiatic, often inscrutable bear had lifted a warning lip at the lion. Guesses were a dime a dozen, but few fitted the known facts. Practically no one believed that Moscow had merely played another card in the complex game of Poland's postwar frontiers. Pravda's bad-mannered belch clearly had some deep but hidden bearing on inter-Allied relations for war & peace...
...Black Future. For the job of running his company, Donald Douglas collects $120,000 salary a year, which he spends sparingly. Dividend-wise, the returns have not been rich, although the company has not lost a dime since it started. The best year was 1941, when net profits were a fat $18,177,000 after taxes on its gross...
...Whitney should be famed in the U.S. less for his cotton gin, on which he never made a dime (his landlady blabbed about it and it was copiously copied before he could make his patents stick), than for producing the world's first manufactured goods with interchangeable parts. When he assembled the scrambled parts of ten muskets before U.S. War Department brass hats, they were as startled as if a magician had conjured them up. Besides contributing to mass production, Whitney's revolutionary discovery also helped the U.S. kill the beginnings of the slavish apprentice system...