Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last weeks of 1945, the Chicago Tribune had to drop all national advertising in its out-of-town circulation (300,000). For seven days, the New Orleans Item came out with no ads. And for five Yuletide days the New York Post did not come...
Jealous of their committee assignments and seniority, Congressmen fished up red herrings. Crusty Carl Vinson and Andrew May introduced legislation to set up a separate air force but drop the idea of a merger. It was a calculated effort. Where merger would cut in half the number of such committee places, the Vinson-May plan would increase them by half...
...rationing. His paper quota was high (10,-500,000 lbs. a year) and his big premium business had melted away. This left him enough paper to expand. While most publishers were curtailing their output of titles, Ben Zevin expanded, picking up best-sellers as other publishers were forced to drop them. One bit of trade gossip: World published Gypsy Rose Lee's G-String Murder on paper alloted for Bibles. This year World sold 13,000,000 volumes, grossed $6,350,000 to become one of the nation's biggest reprint houses...
...long-term standard, fixed by Potsdam-that Germans were not to live better than the average European. Some Americans who knew prewar Germany were shocked when they began to realize how great a drop that was. Germany (despite her self-advertised status as a "have-not" nation) had lived far better than other Continental nations. Even now Germans returning from Poland and The Netherlands told their countrymen that they had no cause to grumble...
...things were, coming to overwhelm me with Benedictions for which I had not bargained. Great oxen and camels and concubines were panting close behind me, he-goats and she-goats and rams of the breed of Bashan. My barns should burst their doors with plenty, and all my paths drop fatness. My face should be smeared with the oil of rejoicing. . . .My feet should be dipped in butter; I should sit under my fig-tree with my heel on the neck of my enemy, and my eyes stand out with fatness; I should flourish as the Cedar of Lebanon that...