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Explained the Post: "Thus a noble old phrase like 'bill of lading' has become 'blading.' A fine sonorous mouthful like 'duty outside the continental limits of the United States' is brutally cut down to 'dutout' and a pulse-quickening designation like '...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Oinc, Moinc, Soinc | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

Like the snake which swallows a frog as big as itself, Aviation Corp. last week contracted to pay $15,000,000 for a 64% interest in Crosley Corp. (Crosley's 1944 earnings of $3,300,000 exceeded AVCO's by nearly $200,000.) This big mouthful was the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: In Time of War Prepare . . . | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

Danger Ahead. At the conclusion of his report Cap Krug said his biggest mouthful:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Official Preview | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

The V-E day confetti had barely been swept from U.S. streets when Georgia's tax-conscious Senator Walter F. George said a mouthful: taxes should now be substantially reduced-"effective on 1946 incomes, regardless of the status of the war against Japan. Otherwise, we can't make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: The Start Down | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

Henry Morgenthau, who as Secretary of the Treasury gets blamed for a lot of taxes but is himself a middle-aged taxpayer, spoke another unpopular mouthful. Urging stiff postwar taxes to retire the national debt (now $231,000,000,000), the 53-year-old Secretary said: "I think people of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 22, 1945 | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

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