Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colonel Fleming countered Mr. Sloan's argument that paying overtime was a step towards inflation, by pointing to General Motors' last annual statement, which showed a total pay roll of $386,000,000, profits of $183,000,000. Said the colonel: "For every dollar paid out in wages and salaries almost 50% was realized in profits. ... I wonder if that old inflation bugaboo looks in the window at businessmen when they are confronted with profits -and scares them just as he does when they are confronted with wage increases. I called it a bugaboo because inflation does...
...does not roll on steadily like a river. Its campaigns rise and ebb like the tides. Last week Europe waited the great flood tides of spring: a probable campaign in the Balkans (see below), an almost certain assault on Britain. But these tides had not yet begun to rise for the tides of winter still receded. In Albania the Greek wave still lapped at the battered Italian Army-after weeks of siege Klisura fell and Mussolini once more changed commanders. In Libya the British campaign still rolled on (see p. 25), but it had been won before Bardia was reached...
Meyer Davis, biggest businessman among U. S. band leaders, has 89 orchestras, with his name clearly printed on each, 1,100 musicians on his $3,500,000-a-year pay roll. Ever since 1913 he has played for socialites what jazzmen call "long-underwear" music, sweet and tuneful. At 18 he muscled into a Bar Harbor hotel whose dance music had been supplied by Boston Symphony men. Now Eastern dowagers would sooner serve gin and ginger ale at their parties than employ non-Davis bands: during a recent Newport season, Meyer Davis played at 59 out of 60 top-flight...
...meet's closest-fought contests Hal Tine won an 8-1 decision over Tufts' Captain Al di Lorenzo. Don Miles came up from behind to win his 9-5 decision, while Harry Blaine in the 128 pound class was only unable to roll his prostrate opponent over to achieve a fall. Lee Sosman and Jim Reidy completed the Varsity's triumph with falls 4:06 and 5:03 respectively...
...United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some of their affairs for mutual and general advantage. For my own part, looking out upon the future, I do not view the process with any misgivings. No one can stop it. Like the Mississippi, it just keeps rolling along. Let it roll. Let it roll on in full flood, inexorable, irresistible, to broader lands and better days...