Word: hand-to-mouth
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...claim on $37 million worth of Indo-Chinese gold captured by the Japanese. There was a chance that $115 million worth of German assets might be kept out of the Treasury for use abroad. All told, it was probably enough to keep Europe going on a hand-to-mouth basis until the first of the year...
...subject and story, Shoeshine is deceptively modest. It traces the gradual destruction of two boys of the Roman streets, twelve-year-old Giuseppe (Rinaldo Smordoni) and his close friend, 14-year-old Pasquale (Franco Interlenghi). They are attractive and resourceful children, at first appearance, living the anarchic, hand-to-mouth life of most of Italy during the chaotic period between the Italian and German surrenders. Then they become front men for Giuseppe's older brother, in a small-time black market deal. They are caught and locked up for questioning. If they had informed on their elders promptly, they...
...Hand-to-Mouth. The nations of Western Europe are not making a real recovery from the damage done by the war. They are staggering along on a hand-to-mouth basis. We in America certainly have a great stake in getting these nations back on their feet and on a self-supporting basis, if for no other reason than that we can then stop our own expenditures for foreign relief. To re-establish these nations will, however, cost money. But it is worth doing, if in exchange for our aid, the nations of Western Europe agree, for example, to integrate...
...fumbling hands of Scripps's grandsons, Ed and Jim (it was never a part of the Scripps-Howard chain), the Star became the third daily in a town whose advertisers really needed only two. In hand-to-mouth depression days, its underpaid editors* never knew how final their final edition might be. To keep their minds off impending doom, they used to fire BB shot from slingshots at customers entering the palmistry parlors and bordellos across Seventh Avenue...
...Hand-to-Mouth. British industry was in no holiday mood, either. "If there is any letup in production," said Sir Stafford Cripps of Britain's export-or-die program, "we shall come a cropper in a year or two." The export goal, 175% of 1938 volume, had looked close last July: exports were up to 120%. But by November they had slipped to 117%. And last week, due to lack of coal, the export program was well on its way to coming a cropper...