Word: gristly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extremes of the earning gamut were two companies that offered plenty of grist for the mills of economic moralists. American Woolen Co., with no big labor, material or reconversion problems, was a startling example of what an economically uninhibited company could do. In the third quarter of 1946, its profits soared to $5,375,000 some 393% over last year's comparable net. So far this year, on common stock selling at only $50 a share, earnings have been a phenomenal...
Respectable Woman. To keep abreast of the woeful tide, Mrs. Gilmer is up at 7 a.m. With a stenographer and her companion-secretary, she zips through her daily grist with a sharp eye out for the "angle" that will cue a sermonette. Every afternoon her chauffeur drives her through Audubon Park and back to the swank Prytania Street apartment. Her stock wisecrack, when showing guests her fine Louis XIV bed: "I'll bet I'm the only respectable woman who ever slept...
...Matthews, again: (quoting Wednesday afternoon's headlines) "Truman Says We Must Eat Less." "State of the Union's" grist is topicality...
...Howard Rocky Mountain News into grogginess, forced Denver merchants to buy Bonfils' coal. They kept a shotgun in their red-carpeted office (which the underpaid staff called the "bucket of blood"), once were both wounded when an irate reader beat them to the draw. Even that affray was grist for their newsmill. Blustered Bonfils: "A dogfight in Champa Street is better than a war abroad." The maxim was drilled into George Creel, Gene Fowler, many another bright pupil in the Post's hell-for-leather journalism school...
...field surrenders" of German armies-a process climaxed by the surrender of The Netherlands, Denmark and northwestern Germany to Field Marshal Montgomery. The fact that U.S. armies had been deliberately halted in their advances toward Berlin and Prague, so that the Red Army could take them, was so much grist for the German mill...