Word: pied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Empire routes; most Axis-owned or controlled bottoms have been driven off world trade routes. Furthermore, total U.S. foreign trade is booming. In the first six months of 1941 U.S. exports rose 36% over 1939, imports jumped 42%. Hence U.S. shipowners get a bigger cut of a bigger pie...
...Cain's three fascinations are the Laocoönic stranglings of sex, money (or its lack) and snobbery. His heroine, Mildred Pierce, finds herself entangled in all three. Divorced after eleven tame years of marriage, she finally manages to support her children through a pie-bakery. But little else in her life is quite as easy as pie. The first of her lovers, her husband's ex-partner, is only too ready to betray her when it means money to him. Her second, an insolvent playboy, blandly accepts her money, calls himself her gigolo, sneers over her with...
While experts surveyed the landscape for destruction, Russian men and women formed a long line, cheerfully helped Canadian soldiers unload equipment and ammunition. Later the Russians opened their communal food center to the Canadians. Enthusiastic Major Murdoch reported: "We tasted such delicacies as borsch and cranberry pie for the first time, and were regaled on steaks hung till they were so tender they could have been eaten with a spoon...
Chomping a sizable slice of humble pie, Secretary of War Stimson last week apologized to Senator Wheeler for his "near treason" blast of the week before, admitted that he had gone off halfcocked...
...contracts; No. 2 is General Motors with $1,200,000,000 (placed or under negotiation); No. 3 Curtiss-Wright with $980,000,000. Consolidated Aircraft has $684,000,000, Glenn Martin $652,000,000. Many a newcomer was beginning to learn the defense business, getting a piece of the pie. But it will take the participation of many more little firms (via subcontracting) to solve the defense production problem...