Word: likings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Production of electric power in the U. S. last fortnight amounted to 2,493,993,000 kilowatt hours, which looks like almost as handsome a number as the U. S. 1939 deficit. Actually it is a very handsome number. It means that electric utilities is one industry which is not only producing 12% more than in lowly 1938, not only 10% more than in rattling 1937, but is selling to consumers about 20% more than in luscious...
This autumn, with a real war emergency at hand, Johnson tried again. Through his War Resources Board, he started honeymooning with New York's very unromantic powerboss, Floyd L. Carlisle (who would like in the process of integration to get a good piece of Howard Hopson's old Associated Gas & Electric system, which sticks into his New York organization at Rochester, Staten Island, elsewhere). Any chance that some arrangement could be made whereby Mr. Carlisle would become War II's No. 1 Dollar a Year man, and deliver the industry's cooperation in a big building...
...promotion of the National Sausage Casing Dealer's Association (heartily accepted by the Institute of American Meat Packers): the turkeyfurter, or hot turk. Its ingredients: one part smoked turkey, one part veal, one part pork, plus breadcrumbs, thyme, sage, an emulsion of turkey fat and broth, all stuffed (like brother hot dog) into sheep casings. Its economics: price 37? to 41? a Ib. in bulk (about 10? above best frankfurters), to retail at 15? each, complete with cranberry sauce and roll...
...little father." When the Count makes love to her while a traffic cop is tooting his whistle, grimly scientific Ninotchka asks: "What is the interval between his whistles?" Her disintegration begins when she discards her semimilitary outfit, buys the most becoming hat she can find, which looks like a horse's nose bag inverted...
...African Farm), who called him "my Soul's wifie." At that time, Ellis candidly confesses, he was 5' 10½" tall, weighed 150 Ibs., had a 23-in. mesocephalic head, an unusually high instep, a long great toe, "scented cheeks," and his castoff shirts smelled like cedar. He was planning his life "largely and spaciously...