Word: platee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...silently. He shuffled from desk to desk, chilled as the dour, guarded faces nodded and smiled toothily. He started, then settled back sheepishly as a cold feminine hand clutched his. "All right now, this isn't going to hurt." She squeezed the blood from his finger onto the glass plate. He started. It was a dark, smooth red. Crimson in triumph flashing, Vag laughed to himself...
...ever since McPhail was a pup. Upturned Dodger noses and supercilious smiles will greet the once-inspired shouts of "trow de big bum out; de empire oughtta take gas." National league umpires will have to carry a pocket-sized edition of Funk and Wagnalls into every argument at home plate. The Dodgers' educational standards will thus be lowered to an unheard-of extreme; it will be like throwing a Ted Lyons curve ball to a rookie straight from Andalusia of the Georgia-Florida League. Unless the Dodgers forego this unholy alliance, their rakish diamond tactics may soon be Whiffenpoofed...
...Aerosphere foresees cannon displacing machine guns almost completely as plane armament before the war ends. "The steel men are manufacturing better armor plate, against which only guns of high caliber can be pitted, calibers which may run as high...
...Future. As boss of the C. & O.-Nickel Plate-Pere Marquette-Wheeling combination, Bob Young has plenty of plans for the future. First on the list is his No. 1 belief: drastic debt reduction as the best way to keep a railroad on the tracks during the next depression. A man who practices what he preaches, Bob Young has slashed Nickel Plate's debt $25,200,000 in the past two years, hopes to cut it another $10,000,000 next year. Meanwhile he has put most of C. & O.'s debt on a sinking-fund basis, hiked...
After debts are scaled down still further Young wants to push consolidation, figures his four roads "go together naturally." But before any consolidation can be made, at least two big problems must be solved: 1) how to wipe out $25,000,000 back dividends on Nickel Plate preferred; 2) what to do with $70,000,000 Alleghany Corp. funded debt...