Word: hunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...output per cow climbed from 3,7431b. to 4,742 lb. annually. (Really good cows average over 8,000 lb.) The U.S. now gets more cheese than it can use or ship to its allies; Agriculture Secretary Wickard recently told newsmen to put two pieces of cheese on every hunk...
...probably will. Opening night the take was $45,000. with tickets at a $27.50 top. Warner Bros. is paying $250,000 for the movie rights. The sheet-music sale on Berlin's songs will bring in another hunk. But This Is The Army should bag most of its take at the box office...
Cinemactor Victor ("The Beautiful Hunk") Mature enlisted in the Coast Guard in Los Angeles...
...typewriter by itself." ("I'd no more think of saying that was a swell performance when I come off the stage-but when I finish a piece of writing, I read it over and I say to myself, 'Say, that's a hell of a hunk of writing...
...corporations seem superficially to be making big money, there is more than one reason why stockholders see only a fraction of it. First, up to 72% of 1941 earnings on stockholders' property were taken in Federal corporation taxes (a levy from which bondholders escape scot-free). Another large hunk is often set aside for special reserves. Sometimes the desire to escape excess-profits taxes may be behind these reserves, but no man can tell, until he knows how bad the war and post-war world will be, whether corporations are being too conservative-or not conservative enough...