Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said the President, the statute of limitations should be revised, so that trust-guilty firms could be punished after the war-the threat of prosecution in any post-war witch hunt would be left hanging over businessmen indefinitely. However businessmen might study this gift horse's teeth, the plain fact was that this was the first gift of any kind to business out of the White House, in many a long year...
...develop modest land holdings into a Utopia for the aged when the boom started; within ten years he and his associates created a city of some 3,000 houses, sold an estimated $150,000,000 worth of land. In 1926 Merrick founded the University of Miami with a gift of $5,000,000 and land. When the boom collapsed, he lost his fortune, retired to a Florida key to run a small fishing camp...
Francis B. Sayre, High Commissioner to the Philippines, having like MacArthur escaped from Bataan, came home to the U.S. bearing a four-foot sword, a gift for the President from General MacArthur-a trophy taken from a Japanese general killed on the field of battle...
...hoard of old machinery lies mouldering. To round up the farm scrap, he decided that paid collectors were necessary. The first thousand collectors announced by Rosenwald last week: WPA workers, with WPA trucks, to go from farm to farm collecting scrap (they will ask for it as a gift, pay for it if need be). It will be auctioned to commercial dealers, who must promise to see that it flows into production channels. While they drive around, the WTA men will also keep an eye peeled for old bridges, abandoned streetcar lines, World War I tanks...
What they had left they spent with abandon. They knew that next year's income tax would make this year's look like a bright dime lost in a subway grating. Now they meant to have some fun. Stores were filled with feverish shoppers. Gift shops and silversmiths found business blooming. Chicago's nightclubs had their biggest night since Pearl Harbor. Most of the nation's theaters played to crowded houses...