Word: dipped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After last week's fiasco in which our efforts appeared under two titles, Lucky Bag and Double Talk, we have mustered courage enough to drown our indignation and again dip the Parker for the SERVICE NEWS...
...corporations are still doing fine. But the profit line chalked out for them by taxes, price ceilings and increased production costs has taken a downward dip for many. The National City Bank's profit figures on 300 leading corporations, for the first nine months of 1944, showed: a 6% increase in profits, after taxes, over the similar 1943 period, with combined sales up 11%. Of the 300 companies, 140 reported higher profits this year, while 160 were down...
Other boats are pulling into position. Soon the LST bow-gates yawn open and amphtracks and amphtanks pop out like young sea horses. All around the rim of sea you can see nothing but our ships while overhead spotter planes dip, circle and mark fire for the big guns...
...Roosevelt's autobiography," wrote Pegler (referring to This is My Story by the President's wife which goes into detail about the family of the President's mother), ". . . is one of my favorite books and every time I dip into it I am tantalized by the author's iron reticence concerning the sources of the Delano fortune. Now I think I understand. The old gent, Warren Delano, President Roosevelt's grandfather, was an old-time opium smuggler, a member of something rather like our own Rum Row which operated off the New York coast...
...last year he had sold enough dip to buy the Saltees. He began planting 3,000 trees, developing his domain as a luxury tourist resort. He also talked about recruiting a private army...