Word: giveaway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invested capital, he explained, he meant 6% of the "dollars put into the business"-his experts would take many pages of the Bill defining it in detail. As an idea, this was a complete giveaway of Henry Morgenthau's economic limitations. It could only have come from a man who knew nothing more of U.S. business than as a bondholder who ventures nothing and owns nothing but a paper right to collect interest on the risks, brains, skill and effort of other...
...German U-boat had made the attack - that fact was apparent because the Germans said that one of their U-boats had been attacked by an unknown destroyer. Apparently, too, the U-boat had escaped location of the because the encounter - Germans which gave the would have been a giveaway if they were bluffing...
...girl, the therapist provides her with a doll with which she unconsciously identifies herself. She makes the doll perform actions which she would not admit any notion of doing herself. One little girl made a toy streetcar run over the sister and mother images -to the doctor, a dead giveaway. Drs. Frank Ford Tallman and Leon Nathaniel Goldensohn find a "Betsy Wetsy" doll (one which can be given water, and wets its diapers) useful because it "allows the child to discuss all sorts of intimate situations that have interested and worried...
...Dead giveaway of Adolf Hitler's intention to run his conquered European countries as auxiliaries to a dominant industrial Germany was last week's announcement that minimum tariffs had been "granted" by the French Vichy Government to all German goods entering France or French colonies...
Movie theatres and chains now offer prizes equal to Pot o' Gold's to coax patrons away from the magic call and into theatres. Information Please, opposite Pot o' Gold, in self-defense instituted a giveaway on its own high intellectual plane-sets of Encyclopaedia Britannica. On CBS, Competitor Walter O'Keefe, with nothing to give listeners but wit, dwindled off the air middle of last month...