Word: fillips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shadow, the same couple, Nick & Nora Charles (William Powell & Myrna Loy), are still married, still in love, but the pace, bounce, snappy dialogue, the old fillip of murder and of amiable dipsomania have given way to resigned indigestion and middle age. Even Asta, their renowned beerhound who suffers nervous breakdowns, can pass a fire hydrant now without so much as an inquiring sniff...
...over last May were FHA mortgages up for appraisal accurate barometer of residential building. Up 15% were sales of big makers of asphalt roofing, asbestos roofings and sidings, cement, gypsum products, insulating lines, other building materials. Fillip: all of their out put was for immediate consumption, not dealers' stocks...
...full power burns oil at the rate of 35 tons an hour.) In U. S. shipyards last week this lifeline-a brand-new merchant fleet-was also building: 118 cargo ships ordered by the U. S. Maritime Commission at a cost of better than $300,000,000. For a fillip, the yards had another $40,000,000 or more of private tankers and cargo ships under construction. To the U. S. shipbuilding industry, this added up to a $1,000.000,000 feast-the biggest in peacetime history...
...destroyers (including the three escaped Polish vessels) were used, with mine-laying submarines and planes to push into the farthest reaches. Leaving a path 20 miles wide for neutral Sweden, the Allies said they mined also the northern half of the Skagerrak, up into Oslo Fjord. For an added fillip they said their mines were of a new type against which there was no known defense. Used in these operations undoubtedly were plenty of France's big submarines which can lay 150 mines per trip. Somewhere along the line the British Spearfish took a crack at the Admiral Scheer...