Word: money
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the military appropriation bill came up last week, Arkansas' dark and taciturn John McClellan proposed a rider directing the President to cut all money measures by at least 5%, and a maximum of 10%. Amidst bellows from Administration leaders that this was a "sham and pretense," to say nothing of an inglorious surrender of Congress' control of the national purse, McClellan's resolution went down...
...economy drive died with it. In passing the military bill the Senate did bravely lop about $1 billion off the House's bill (providing for a 48-group instead of the House's 58-group Air Force). A few money bills, including foreign military aid, remained for the Senate to work on and there might be some further whittling when House and Senate conferees got together to settle on final sums. But there was little chance that any important cuts would be made...
Days later, he met Pirogov in a bar on upper Broadway. The embassy had promised, Barsov said, that if they would both go home, there would be no reprisal and no trial. He asked Pirogov to stop work on the book he was writing, offered to get him the money to pay back whatever advances had been made. Pirogov was scornful. As they left, Pirogov said: "Tell them thanks for their offer of money and for finding such a fool in you. If we ever meet again, it will be as bitter enemies." Barsov replied: "The embassy says it makes...
Across the country, farmers were cautious but content. They had good equipment and money in the bank, the fat of six prosperous years. The total volume of crops was only 6% short of 1948-5 incredible production and 30% above the 1923-32 average. Rice and tree nuts set records. Cotton, wheat, oats, tobacco, apples, peaches and pears were above average. Nature had been kind; improved technology had increased yields by a whopping 50% an acre in the past 20 years. And men had worked hard for the bounty they would reap. As Mrs. Barbour pointed out: "People look...
...moved to the adjoining room to see a 16-mm. American film with German subtitles, called Yours Forever-an export version of Mrs. Parkington. It dealt with millionaires who had squandered their own lives and their ancestor's hard-earned money. The opening shot showed children singing carols in front of a mansion. A blase woman dripping in furs brushes half of them off and asks the butler to sweep the rest away. Then she pours herself a large shot of liquor. Tito nudged me. "Whisky!" he said...