Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stunt radio program had persuaded one of its audience-Lieut. Colonel William M. Hendrix-to model a figure of his wife, his first attempt at sculpture (see cut) and present it to the park system. Said bad-tempered Moses: "I can think of nothing more unwelcome than your gift of the bronze, life-size statue of The Ideal American Wife. I say this unhesitatingly without having seen it. ... We have a number of reclamation operations . . . which require fill of all kinds. I can promise that your statue will be part of the foundation of a new park, but it will...
Then they bowed. As the Americans filed out, Mayor Kihara handed each of them a New Year's gift-a tablecloth and napkin set-from the "City of Hiroshima...
...farmers owe this price-support gift to a law jammed through Congress by the powerful farm bloc during the war. Under the law, the Government must pay farmers 90% of parity for two years following the official end of hostilities. Since neither President Truman nor Congress declared the war officially at an end in 1945, the Government must now keep its promise through 1948, instead of just...
...tartness in contemporary political verse, "Sagittarius" of the London New Statesman easily tops the world. Last week she wrote carols that British Members of Parliament and American Congressmen might suitably sing to each other. After the British sang their thanks for "a gift with strings a-dangling," the Americans were to reply with "Good Lord Halifax" (to the tune of Good-King Wenceslas...
...wondered how much the business, which does not manufacture but only distributes appliances, was worth. Andy, who had threatened to close down his company a month ago after a union fight, put a figure of $100,000 on the Appliance Division. But the lucky three were not looking their gift horse in the mouth. Said former Division Manager, now company President J. O. Clary: "We were completely overwhelmed. I feel like Cinderella at Christmas time...