Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked a lot more like Congress' estimates than like those of Secretary Morgenthau. For they showed that the U.S. is now actually paying for 47% of the war. (In World War I the U.S. paid only 32% of current expenses.) With receipts still rising and expenditures expected to drop, the U.S. may end up by exceeding the 52% which the British are paying...
...income after taxes would be reduced by only $25,000. Meanwhile Loew's would drop $45,000 into the pension fund for him. Thus a big pay cut now, when taxes are skyhigh, means only a small net reduction in his income...
These figures represent a drop of almost 300 from the March total of 1,550, and a somewhat larger decline from the total of 1,780 civilian students who registered last July, a for cry from the peacetime averages of 8,000 University students, and from the low mark of 3,684 during the first World...
...their stand. in the center near Lake Trasimeno, where Hannibal once (217 B.C.) bloodily wiped out a Roman army under Flaminius, seemed only temporary. They had been providentially helped by days of rain that gummed down the pursuit, forced the unopposed Allied air fleet to drop from more than 2,000 sorties daily to a piddling...
...news promptly brought out supplies of whiskey which had been hoarded in stores across the nation. And many a retailer whose shelves are loaded with such substitutes as tequila, vodka, rum and Cuban gins hastily cut prices to clear the way for American whiskey and gin. In Manhattan, prices dropped 50? a bottle. On the West Coast, the drop was as great as 30%. The industry gossiped that distillers would open the whiskey spigot wider immediately, letting out as much as 15% more of their precious stocks...