Word: pies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Easy as Pie." Through four days of question & answer, blue-jawed Judge McGranery, nattily dressed, dispensed Irish charm and dodged sticky issues. He had one powerful argument on his side: the committee's chairman, Nevada's domineering Pat McCarran was for him; he tapped and banged his gavel to quiet McGranery when the candidate talked too much and led him to acceptable answers when he evaded too blatantly...
...well at captivating Washington correspondents. "It must be wonderful sport," she said at a Statler Hotel luncheon with press, radio & television reporters, "to contradict each other. You are interested in the kitchen of the world-you want to find out what is cooking . . . who has a finger in the pie and who will burn his finger." But her interview with Washington newshens seemed to leave her slightly appalled. "My God," she murmured, as she looked at one of a sheaf of written questions which had been submitted. She had been asked if her 14-year-old daughter, Beatrix, had started...
From manufacturing chlorine in chem lab to baking good apple pie for dinner--this is the double life that 36 Radcliffe girls living in cooperative houses lead. Menus and recipes become as important for them as math formulas or the analysis of a Yeats poem...
...Government 23%, and the whole shooting match came to only $3 billion. Even as late as 1939 (when, despite New Deal spending, all taxes totaled only $12.3 billion), Washington took little more than a third. In fiscal 1950, the Federal Government gulped up 70% of the $53 billion tax pie. The percentage is still rising. Trying to tag along on the gravy train, 29 states now have income taxes of their own on the books...
...Glass textiles are used for wiring insulation and as curtains and drapes. Three years ago a glass fishing rod was put on the market; now 10 million glass poles are in use. Boeschenstein knows how to advertise his products. In a "roving revue" the stars were an unbaked cherry pie, a quart of ice cream and a pot of hot coffee. The ice cream (wrapped in glass wool) and the pie (unwrapped) were put in an oven; the coffee pot (wrapped) in a refrigerator. When removed, the pie was baked, the ice ream still hard, the coffee still steaming...