Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fleet back on the seven seas by means of mail subsidies and cheap construction loans, no one thought the job could be done for nothing. How very much the 14-year effort cost the Treasury -and how and why-a special Senate investigating committee headed by Alabama's lean, earnest Hugo Black began last week to discover...
When Irak's lean King Feisal died last month (TIME, Sept. 18), he bequeathed to his son Ghazi a political juggling act: a circle of Moslem advisers nicely balanced between Anglophiles and Anglophobes. He bequeathed, too, his brother and personal adviser, that AH ibn Hussein who was King of the Hejaz for a year (1924-25) after his father Hussein abdicated and before Ibn Saud drove him out. Among the Arab clique; who stalk between the slender pillars of the King's Palace in Bagdad, Ali is rated an Anglophile. Against him are the Finance Minister, the Army...
...disheartened by their miserable forecasts last April, baseball experts promptly made Washington a 7-10-5 favorite to win the World Series, starting Oct. 3. Main feature of the Giants' success this season has been their pitching staff, led by fat Freddie Fitzsimmons, 21 -year-old Hal Schumacher, lean left-handed Carl Hubbell. Roy Parmelee, who performed brilliantly earlier in the season, recently lost control. His wild pitches broke the wrists of Boston Outfielder Randy Moore and Chicago Infielder Stanley Hack. A harder hitting team and, man for man, more impressive on the strength of batting and fielding averages...
...Brien's taxes were imposed, security dealers would be far better off in New Jersey than in New York State, 1) They would avoid New York State's transfer taxes which contributed $31,000,000 to Governor Lehman's budget even in the last lean year. 2) All security dealers who lived in New Jersey and all those who chose to move there would avoid the New York State income tax (New Jersey has none). When these facts were generally realized last week things moved swiftly...
...stock transfer tax of 4?, he prophesied that the city's additional tax of 4? would drive security traders to do their business in other markets. Pointing out further that except for July and August 1932, and for May, June and July 1933 brokers have had three incredibly lean years, he declared that the tax on brokers would put many a brokerage firm out of business. The broker-filled gallery came down with applause...