Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Overtime. In Wichita, Kans., a youthful trusty, during a talk with the sheriff, learned that his term was up and that he had been "discharged" four months before, but nobody had gotten around to telling...
Fontana's costs, largely because of the $105,000,000 it still owes RFC, are far higher than Geneva's. So Kaiser's most practical move was to ask the railroads which serve him to give him the same reduction as Geneva had gotten from its carriers. He wanted lower rates on all steelmaking materials brought to Fontana as well as on his outbound shipments...
...last summer, when the Senate War Investigating Committee began to rummage through the shadowy Garsson munitions empire, it turned up evidence that May had gotten something more tangible than pleasure out of his wartime career. There was talk of packets of $1,000 and $3,000 sent him from the Garsson's Washington office. There was the peculiar circumstance that May had endorsed a check as president of the Cumberland Lumber Co., which the Garssons paid for lumber which was never delivered or even...
...season-a time when symphony conductors take a rest and the players try to fathom the strange habits of guest conductors. With Conductor Artur Rodzinski away, the men of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony had just gotten used to fiddling and blowing in the allout way Guest Conductor Leopold Stokowski wanted. Now they had to get used to another guest conductor...
...already been pared by the President's budgeteers from $113,980,000 to $92,271,000. Recently CAA had to close down 55 air communications stations and three airport control towers for lack of funds. "For the past seven years," said CAA Administrator T. P. Wright, "we have gotten about two-thirds of what we needed...