Word: pies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Speaker Joe Martin, who might not always know how to deal with world problems but certainly knew how to deal with his Congressmen. Day in & day out, little Joe rose at 7, worked all day on Capitol Hill, as often as not lunched on a sandwich and piece of pie in the House cloakroom, and popped back into bed at 9:30 to refresh himself for another day. Unlike Taft, he commanded an overwhelming majority. One henchman chortled: "With our majority we actually told fellows they could vote as seemed best for their district situation...
These estimates are based on demand and not need, between which the report draws a sharp distinction. "Witness the American male, who prefers steak and potatoes and apple pie to a better-balanced diet. Too many of us drink milk dutifully, but highballs gladly." If the U.S. were to try to supply all needs (minimum standards of health and decency for everyone) as well as all demands (all the goods which the wealthier want to purchase), then the estimates would have to be raised. The U.S. would have to turn out goods & services worth $200 billion...
...chuff out of Buenos Aires in August 1857. In the years that followed, the six miles of track grew to 27,000-over half of it broad Russian gauge (5 ft. 6 in.) like La, Portena's. Because Britain kept her finger in the succulent Argentine railway pie, British investors eventually owned 74% of Argentina's trackage...
...superintendent, the county superintendent, the ex-county superintendent, and a principal from Moline-he used to be a pupil of Miss Lizzie-were all there. (The ladies of the church, worried about the right way to seat them, had written to Emily Post, who straightened them out.) After the pie and Pur Yesterdays, sung by the girls' octet, it was time for "remarks." The state Superintendent, at the peak of his form, called Miss Lizzie "an honored member of an honored profession." Then they gave Miss Lizzie the presents everybody had chipped in to buy: a walnut desk...
...this sop they are told to "clean their own house" and the battle goes merrily on while the newspapers' circulation climbs. Whatever the reason for the inability of sober-minded Boston to cope with the greatest lack in its society, the opposing factions seem to have split the pie. Bostonians now get murder with their coffee and morals with their tea, all the while remaining blissfully ignorant of what goes on outside the city limits...