Word: pocketbook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pocketbook was concerned. For the Treasury ruled last week that an employer could get back in tax-rebates some 60% of all portal-to-portal claims paid. And war contractors who had been on a cost-plus-fixed-fee basis could probably collect from the Government 100% of claims paid. On the basis of the suits filed so far, the Government stood to lose as much as $4 billion...
...Chase (Nebenzal-United Artists) never runs quite fast enough to catch up with its good thriller beginning. A broke and hungry ex-G.I. (Robert Cummings) finds a bill-heavy pocketbook on a Miami sidewalk and returns the lost property to its gangster owner (Steve Cochran). Highly amused by such "stupid" honesty, the gangster and his henchman (Peter Lorre) give Cummings a job as chauffeur...
Inflation seems to have hit the student pocketbook and the demand deposits of the Boston Elevated Railway simultaneously yesterday. Parsimony and scrupulous honesty have tangled and honesty probably will prove to be the bet policy for those who try to take the girl friend to Boston for a dime by way of the tandem turnstile at the Hayes-Bickford subway entrance...
Hollywood, living far beyond its cus tomers' means, suffers from a severely bloated pocketbook (TIME, Oct. 21). The complaint is chronic, but a shrewd new diagnosis has been made by the Saturday Review of Literature's roving reviewer, John Mason Brown...
...resolute in resisting alumni pressure to let in the son of dear old Jones of the Form of 1896 when the boy has an I.Q. of 98. . . . We are none of us content to have so large a portion of our student body there simply because of. . . the paternal pocketbook. . . . We all want to open our doors wider to talent, [to] a more genuine cross-section of the entire American community...