Word: inked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aircraft, and Johnson, as United president, became a scapegoat in the U.S. Government's abortive 1934 airmail contract cancellation. When Boeing recalled him from Canadian exile five years later, the company was suffering from two interrelated problems: 1) sales were small, its profit & loss statement soaked in red ink; 2) production was painstakingly perfectionist and inefficient...
...deep red ink, the U.S. Government wrote finis to another fiscal year. The Treasury Department announced that: 1) $78 billion had been spent, ten times the average annual outlay of the New Deal's palmiest spending days; 2) though revenues were $22 billion, up four times the prewar average, the Federal debt had jumped from $40 billion (1939) to $137 billion. Economists who once cried "Wolf" at $8 billion F.D.R. budgets had no words left now to report their horror at the ever-widening gap ($56 billion in fiscal 1943) between what the U.S. Government took in and what...
...ink was scarcely dry on the contract between U.S. Rubber and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony (TIME, May 17) when another great company decided to play patron to another great orchestra. Following Rubber's nationwide Sunday hookup (CBS, 3 p.m., E.W.T.), General Motors will sponsor another national Sunday concert, by the NBC Symphony (NBC, 5 p.m., E.W.T.). The cost to G.M. for a year is about the same as that to Rubber-around...
...more information in bars from loose-lipped soldiers and sailors. To report all this in letters to Nazi agents in Zurich and Lisbon, old-fashioned Spy Lehmitz used an ancient device: between the lines of letters about Victory gardens and California sherry, he wrote his messages in invisible ink. Lehmitz pleaded guilty of espionage. U.S. authorities bugled: "One of the most important arrests...
...were nine more bodies within a 25-yd. area. There were plenty of bullet clips in the little leather cases which hung on the wearers' belts. Near the bottom of the slope lay the body of a Japanese captain. His silk white handkerchief was centered by a lewd ink sketch. A couple of hundred yards down the valley we found a dead Japanese officer who carried, like most Japs, photographs of his wife and children. It had rained the previous night, so the officer's open mouth was half filled with water...