Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from 6 to 10? an hour. But living, including laundry, meals and room rent ran to no more than $2 a week. The main dining room offered a varied bill of fare: meat cost 2? a serving, pie 2?, coffee ½? a cup. Clothing was made on the farm, and a system of old-age pensions and insurance...
...Helmstedt, main crossing point on the Soviet-British frontier, workmen and soldiers had hurriedly installed radio and telephone equipment, repainted border signs, clipped weeds at the sides of the long unused highway. The British announced that the first train would be for military passengers and correspondents. Later in the day, ten trainloads of coal and six of fresh potatoes and other goods would reach the city...
...Westward Ho! for dollars, and the Marshall-Truman Main...
Frustrated Exports. Have Britain's modern "mercantile adventurers" the stuff to sweep the dollar main? Gone were the days when Britain faced no real competition on world markets. As one energetic Briton said last week: "We must get out of our carpet slippers and don swashbucklers' boots." But the British were not doing much swashbuckling. As the sellers' market was fading, U.S. sales resistance mounted. British prices were too high for the U.S. market; Austin Motor bravely slashed the prices of its cars from $75 to $1,000, cutting its profits to ribbons. Other British automakers groaned...
McIntire would like to see his American Council taken seriously as the formal opposition to the Federal Council of Churches. His main charges against the Federal Council: 1) identifying Christianity with social reforms; 2) failing to accept every word of the Bible as literally true; 3) trying to make some sort of a deal with the Roman Catholic Church ("a system which enslaves and destroys the souls of mortal...