Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bigger Cut. Livestock raisers,according to Department of Agriculture figures, are the chief beneficiaries of high-priced meat. They now get 70? of every consumer's dollar spent on meat, as against 51? in 1939. Although it had no exact figures on the remaining 30? , the department guessed that it was split as follows: commission agents 2?, packers 10? , wholesalers 3? and retailers...
Even lusty regular cheer for the team, in which all hands enunciated a similar and exact number of rahs failed to cheer the morose Spear as he envisaged the winning touchdowns against Yale greeted with study and unorganized silence...
crashed into a ravine near Danville in 1903. The Southern Railway's "mighty rough road from Lynchburg to Danville" had since been shifted, and the exact spot where the engineer...
Hazardous Past. The tight-lipped Atomic Energy Commission did not tell all it knows about the new "reactor." The active substance is plutonium, which wrecked Nagasaki. This time it is under exact control. In operation since last November, the tame bomb can be throttled down until "the heat produced in the core of the reactor is no greater than that given off by a kitchen oven...
Discovery. Eddie's arrival in Hollywood provided an answer to Olympia Studios' most stunning problem: what to do with the exact duplicate of Paris' Gare St.-Lazare which somebody had constructed on the lot. And it ended the creative impasse between Scripters Ludlow Mumni and Maurice Cassard. Mumm was a solemn, devout Manhattan liberal who was driven to picket lines by a chauffeur. Cassard was a rumpled, realistic Frenchman, who admitted to an impulse to vomit into the hats of "Stork Club Communists." They were working together on the script of Moses Fable's preposterous musical...