Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reduction in the debt was achieved largely by applying funds from the Treasury's cash balance, which was at a peacetime peak of $25.96 billion on Feb. 28, 1946. Since this huge cash balance was the result of 1) the sudden end of the war and the consequent cutting of military and naval expenses below budget appropriations, and 2) the greatly oversubscribed Victory Loan Drive of August-December 1945, the chances of similar debt reductions in years to come...
...jovial John Steelman, the President's special assistant, had unsuspectingly come dressed in white shirt and pants. As Truman chuckled gleefully, Steelman was laid out on the tin "operating table," prodded with an electrically charged knife, and given a gargle of quinine and lemon extract from a huge hypodermic syringe. Then he was plastered with paint, run through a gauntlet of shellbacks wielding stuffed canvas paddles, up steps with electrically charged handrails. After another gargle, he was pushed into a tilting chair and dumped backward into the ducking pool, where seven blackened sailors ducked him vigorously. Then...
...After that paralyzing moment the plane gained forward momentum. Two hundred and fifty feet below, the sea looked like a huge vanilla milk-shake in a mixer. All around, for a hundred miles in any direction and for possibly 20,000 feet upward, was the hurricane. We were in the center...
...there is only death," sighed a dainty dancer at a huge protest rally in Shanghai's New Fairy Forest ballroom last week. A delegation of ten, led by graceful, limpid-eyed Meng Yen, queen of the Metro-Goldwyn (no kin to Hollywood) dance hall, was promptly dispatched to Nanking. From headquarters at the Security and Happiness Hotel, Yen and her henchwomen bore down on the National Economic Council, the Ministries of the Interior and Social affairs, the Legislative Yuan. Functionaries sent word that they were out, so the girls left notes...
...spent the money as fast as he earned it. He had a $200,000 estate in Maryland and a ten-room suite on Riverside Drive. He smoked eight-inch monogrammed cigarets and was always accompanied by two huge Great Danes ($10,000 each). He was one of the first romantic actors to get his fan mail by the bale, and it always included several hundred amorous propositions...