Word: drain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pakistan over our piddling offer of $8 to $12 million in Point Four aid [an official source from Karachi said they were "insulted"]. TIME, and the American public, should be insulted that we have offered Pakistan this paltry sum when we are willing to [pour] $50 million down the drain in India (because Nehru plays footie with Mao and Joe), and another $24 million to Mossadegh's clique, who are playing footie with each other, waiting for their tanker to come in ... India, land of muddy rivers and muddy liberalism, led by Nehru alone ... is no more in need...
...Cobina blames herself now for being so heedless of business affairs; while the bottom was falling out of the stock market she was busy with cross-country concerts and social life. She had also lost touch with her husband. A few years after the Wright millions went down the drain, the marriage broke up. Bill went off with another woman. They were divorced, not without a scandal "spicy enough," she notes, "to share front-page space with the trial of the Lindbergh kidnaper...
...Thank God for Winston Churchill.' But I do now. We need a man of courage and vision. We are in the worst jam we have ever been in, and unless every man, woman and child wakes up, we will go completely down the drain...
...average housewife has little more training than that afforded by an elective home economics course in high school. With this, she is expected to deal daily with steam and hot liquids, fire, sharp hand tools, glass and other fragile objects, detergents, harsh cleansers and abrasives, active poisons [drain solvents, ammonia, lye, etc.] and complicated mechanical and electrical appliances...
...compromise. The U.S. wanted to pay $1.12; the British producers wanted $1.25. Since Malaya produces 34% of the world's tin, the new price may well establish the price pattern for Bolivian and Indonesian metal. In any case, the new flow of tin from Malaya will ease the drain on the U.S. stockpile...