Word: scrapings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been president of the Chamber of Commerce during the darkest days. Under his determined guidance, a 550-acre site near town was bought for $10 an acre as an "industrial development park." Not long after, the Pennsylvania state legislature passed a law providing loans to towns that could scrape up outright contributions from townspeople-as well as bank loans-to attract new industry. Dessen got a local organization going to get the money, dubbed it CAN DO, then spent three weeks trying to dream up some words to fit the initials. Finally he came up with the coherent if colorless...
...perform surgery on the contents of a food parcel, to count skulls in the numbered cubicles where prisoners contemplate their anonymity. As a meaningful human drama, it has a point of view. Night Watch deepens the adventure of an underground escape route by saying that a man can scrape, scratch, hammer and claw his way to freedom from everything but himself...
Washday Rolls. The first problem is getting seed capital. American banks are usually not interested in helping, and foreign bankers tend to shun the little man in favor of big companies. Many beginners have to scrape deep to supply their own capital; others are forced to borrow on a short-term basis at interest rates that range from 18% to 25%. These charges, plus high import duties on American-made equipment, make many foreign ventures much more expensive to set up than similar ones...
...bitterly about the tangle of bureaucratic red tape and the unintelligible tax laws. German bureaucrats "sit in their little chairs and become little kings," says Expatriate Charles Immler, who runs a small office-cleaning business. "All the Germans bow to them, but I am not one who likes to scrape and bow." In Latin America, some expatriate Americans find that bill paying is as casual as the climate...
...avail. Last week President-elect Leoni, a dour, unimaginative party politician, rejected Caldera's final offer for coalition. With that, Caldera announced that COPEI would now go into opposition, would pursue an independent course of "autonomy of action." Leoni scrambled among the other parties, tried to scrape up a tenuous four-party coalition that would give A.D. a majority in Congress. But few Venezuelans were willing to bet that any new coalition would last much beyond inauguration...