Word: plum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American action would lead Britain into war with the locust-like Chinese masses-a war for which this country was as unripe psychologically as it was ill-prepared militarily. The other was that U.S. power would bog itself down in the bottomless quagmire of China, leaving Europe an unprotected plum to be plucked by the Russians at will...
...initial stages of the party it dispensed Scotch, but this ran out quickly, leaving Martinis, slivowitz (plum brandy) and orange juice. The flow of these potions, however, was reduced to a mere dribble: the amateur bartenders ran out of glasses. The guests wheeled hungrily toward the buffet. There was no trace of the usual turkeys, Virginia hams, salmon and pâtés which capital partygoers consider their legitimate reward-only fresh-cheeked girls circulating with trays of snippets of homemade sandwiches and tiny pastries...
...eight months, two U.S. utility titans have fought before the Federal Power Commission for an estimated $125-million-a-year plum: bringing the first natural gas to New England (TIME, March...
...change into $15 million. With his younger brothers Herbert and Harold, he built the potent investment banking firm of Allen & Co. (TIME, Aug. 2,1948). They bought up and reorganized the Rockefellers' famed Colorado Fuel & Iron Corp., Germany's war-forfeited American Bosch Corp., captured many another plum with their sharp-eyed knack for spotting "special situations...
...Sugar Plum. Commodity men had another solution for high prices. Instead of throttling the futures markets, they said, the Government could keep prices down simply by dumping on the market some of its $2.5 billion load of surplus farm products. Said Chicago Board of Trade Executive Vice President J. 0. McClintock: "Since there is really no scarcity, with the government holding all these goods . . . selling surplus is possibly the best way to stave off inflation...