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Word: pies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bill, are the pipe-line companies who collect 90 cents from every dollar spent for gas by the householder. The amendment, he claims, would stimulate new industries based on an increased supply of natural gas and enable the producer to have a bigger share of his own pie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eisenhower and Natural Gas | 2/15/1956 | See Source »

...what diplomats call a tour d'horizon, an overall review of common concerns. The President welcomed Eden on the White House steps. When the visitor asked: "How are you?" Ike, aware of big-eared reporters, cupped his hand and jokingly whispered his reply. During lunch (steak and apple pie). Britain's Eden remarked that the U.S. handling of Marshal Bulganin's request for a non-aggression pact (TIME, Feb. 6) had struck him as "admirable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Tour of the Horizon | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

...overproduction and "reckless" past expansion, could hardly be expected to put much stress on speeding up the growth of the economy as a whole. The New Deal, operating on the assumption that the economy was maturing, stressed the struggle between classes for a bigger piece of a limited pie. It took up the cudgels for the "have-nots," believing that an ever-larger Government was needed to overpower what Harry Truman loved to call "the special interests." Eisenhower's 1956 Economic Report assumes an ever-expanding pie. From that assumption it derives a new meaning of Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Between the Graphs | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...months, Elsie and Henry has made the sandwich shop a thriving business. Their popularity is a much a result of their proprietorship as of their food. "We feel at home here," Elsie says. "The boys come from good homes and like a sandwich or a piece of home-made pie before they go to bed. But sometimes they come in and have had a little too much, not food--you know. Then I have a Bromo-Seltzer for them. I have my own boys, and I know how they feel...

Author: By George H. Watson jr., | Title: Hamburg Special | 11/29/1955 | See Source »

Yakima is one of the largest apple-producing centers, so it came as somewhat of a shock to find that restaurants here failed to produce a tasty apple pie. One individual here suggested that the restaurateurs of Cripple Creek be invited to move to Yakima along with their pie tins; another suggested that the apple growers of Yakima be invited to move to Cripple Creek. A pie-testing task force was dispatched to various restaurants; other remedies will be taken to ensure travelers passing through this town that apple pies are worthy of the name of Yakima. JESS LINDEMAN President

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 28, 1955 | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

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