Word: rolles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that $103 billion, they guess, the nation will have $55 billion to spend, with almost nothing to spend it on. Of this, taxes will sop up about $18 billion, savings and investments will absorb another $20 billion. The $17 billion that remains is the dangerous "wild money" which will roll around the china shop like a bull, crashing through prices, breaking up ceilings and walls, unless the Government finds a way to ring its nose. And to complicate matters a large part of this money will be in the hands of wage earners while the proposed taxes will fall heaviest...
Invasion by the War into almost every field of learning appears to be the most distinct characteristic of the new course pamphlet which is scheduled to roll off the University presses early this morning...
Another nurse shortly appeared at the head of the stairs, asked him to come up, remove his coat, loosen his collar, and roll up his sleeve. Vag did so, and entered the death chamber with a light foot but a heavy heart. Seeing the preponderance of elderly dowagers, college girls and other assorted females, however, Vag gritted his teeth and said to himself, "If they can do it, so can I." He lay down on the designated bed, held out his arm in a gesture of resignation, and prepared to watch the proceedings...
...just learned that the Defense Plant Corp. had okayed an $800,000-odd contract for factory-sized additions to his barn. With this money-plus all or part of the 30% cash advance on his Army contract-Kennedy hopes that by Sept. 1, the first Globe-built Beechcraft will roll out the factory doors...
...picked a good libretto, but no easy theme for an opera. Kipling's fable relates (in the famed Briton's most roll-down-to-Rio prose) how King Solomon's loving wife, Balkis the Most Beautiful, saved her lord from the vexatious quarreling of his 999 other wives. As Solomon strolls in his garden he overhears a butterfly & wife quarreling. The butterfly threatens that if he stamps his foot the palace and garden will vanish in a thunderclap. Solomon, amused, calls up his Djinns, enables the butterfly to make good his threat. In the end Solomon...