Word: increment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean Sherman conjectured that the increment in college imbibing might be due in part to the enlarged veteran complement. Servicemen's threats have been inured to such potent potions as "jungle juice" and the high concentrations achieved by amateur distillers with fermenting fruit in closed gasoline tins. Such concoctions passed the "pressure purity test" when they blew off the sealed...
...exact figures on the increment of the 1941 Yale weekend liquor consumption were available from a thorough tapping of sources and kegs. George H. O'Brien, genial provisioned of the Mount Auburn oasis, is relying on his memory and his well stocked cellar to meet the boom in demand...
Minister Pleven also asked for a 3% to 20% tax on increment of wealth during the war (a "moral" necessity aimed at collaborationist profits). He calculated his two measures would yield revenues of 130 billion francs. He based his figures on a Government census of fortunes, in itself a radical departure from French financial tradition. Hitherto a passionate anonymity has shrouded the wealth of individual Frenchmen. The Government, said Minister Pleven, had discovered that France had 1,300 billion francs of national wealth in liquid form. His levies on wealth would siphon off 10% of this liquidity...
...scheme for bringing him to work bright and shining. They hired men to tail him nightly, bet him $100 he wouldn't be in shape to work the next day. Never a loose man with a dollar, the comedian couldn't refuse the tempting increment. For a while the ruse worked. But when he returned from a European trip with his wife a few years later, there was no work for him in Hollywood. That was old stuff to Trooper Oakie...
...divisions will each have their own reconnaissance corps, anti-tank gun corps, and the like. The actual four projected mechanized divisions will be smaller, trained separately, requiring carefully selected men to fill out their increment...