Word: portions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summoned their roly-poly leader, Erich Ollenhauer, to his office in Palais Schaumburg, asked him to sit down, then read aloud several Ollenhauer speeches arguing for Big Four talks prior to ratification. Der Alte then picked up the latest Soviet note proposing Big Four talks, and read a portion from it. The two were strangely similar. Ollenhauer, an antiCommunist, sputtered with rage as Adenauer made his point: "Herr Ollenhauer. these are your words and this is the Soviet note. I hope that our debate will be calm and polite and that it will not be necessary for me to read...
...Bundestag, the Chancellor confounded his adversaries and allies by himself plunging into the explosive issue of the Saar. He accused the French government of distorting the agreement which he made with Mendès-France in Paris. By himself voicing the increasing German distaste for the Saar portion of the Paris accords, der Alte hoped to forestall opposition charges that he had been maneuvered by Mendès-France into "selling out German territory." He promised to "clarify these obvious differences with the French Premier"; if that did not work, he would call on the U.S. and Britain to arbitrate...
Manhattan's Podiatrist Marvin D. Steinberg. The instrument, shaped like a safety-razor handle with a sharp bore at the tip, cuts out the offending portion of toenail in 30 seconds...
Under the proposed deal, one of the five U.S. companies, probably the Puget Sound Power & Light Co., would build the dam, turn it over to Canada free. In return, Puget Sound would get an 800,000-kw. share of the new power produced in the U.S. (a portion of which it would resell to the other companies), leaving 440,000 kw. for the federal-power network. Total cost to the company for the Mica Creek dam: $700 million, which it would pay off at the rate of $14 million annually for 50 years through the sale of low-cost power...
Last week the Senate Agriculture Committee took out after the processors. It found, in a study of ten representative processing plants around the U.S., that the margin between prices paid the farmer and retail prices had increased as much as 27.9% in 3½ years, and a "very substantial portion of the increased spread went into greater profit-taking...