Word: owing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kansas City civic group, invited manufacturers to a "Westport tea party" - to form postwar reserves for their industries by putting aside money from their Federal income taxes. "Put on your Indian paint and feathers and join me," cried the 48-year-old, youthful, minister's daughter. "I owe it to my country ... to help rectify this horrible mistake which will most certainly carry us right into the abyss of Communism." Cited as U.S. industry's leading lady (by the National Association of Manufacturers), one of the country's ten best-dressed women (by the Fashion Academy...
...This above all is a time when the industrial leaders of America owe it to their country and to themselves to practice the arts of compromise...
Strong carrier forces gave the big Jap base at Rabaul its second bombing: Army bombers also plastered a 10,000-ton warship and other vessels there (see cut). Said a Marine officer on Bougainville: "We owe a lot to the Air Force and Navy surface forces. We'd have been under the gun if they hadn't knocked out the Japanese air power in this area and prevented enemy surface forces from reaching...
...Atlantic flank, was holding grim and elaborate civil-defense exercises, and rumor ran fast that she might be about to join the Allies. If, in the logic of events, Germany declared war on Portugal, the squeeze would fall on Franco. He knows, better than most, that the Allies owe him no gratitude, that any advance against him would be an advance against Hitler...
...Typical Boggs client is a doctor whose collections averaged around 50% of what was owed him and whose income, never over $5,000, had dropped to $3,600. Boggs found that the man did not even know the full names of many of his patients, nor what they owed him. He needed a rest, but did not dare take a two-week vacation for fear of losing income and patients. Boggs made him go away for a month, sent out handsome engraved announcements saying why the doctor had gone and when he would be back. On his return, the doctor...