Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carry Chicago's wobbly economy through the Depression, was one of the first to promote term loans, played an important part in shaping today's more flexible U.S. monetary system; of coronary thrombosis; in Chicago. An intellectual maverick for a banker, courtly Edward Brown, read a balance sheet or James Joyce with equal recall, was a lifelong Democrat who was hauled in by Chicago cops in 1912 while campaigning for Woodrow Wilson, in 1944 heartily endorsed a fourth term for F.D.R...
...hand: the soaring food costs and the rice shortage, which are spreading misery in Calcutta and all West Bengal. Starving mobs have halted freight trains and looted the cars of food. Confidently using the tactics employed against them in Kerala, the Reds fired off a 53-page "charge sheet" against the West Bengal administration of Chief Minister Dr. B. C. Roy, the 77-year-old leader of the local Congress Party, accusing his regime of corruption, misrule, nepotism and graft -much of it true. A "Famine Resistance Committee" drew up plans for mass defiance of the law and set August...
...easy course) and throws himself into cemetery working (tough studying). After hard work, his grades should be boxed, racked or knocked. But if he is still not sure whether he can grease (just pass), he may turn rider (cribber). He finds a pony to ride or gets a cheat sheet and then, all saddled up, feels ready to face even Flunkenstein, the prof's IBM grading machine...
Getting Warmer. "At one point I got seasick and heaved. I went up and joined the chute. It draped over me like a sheet, and I was afraid that when I blossomed again, I'd be tangled in the shrouds and risers. But I wasn't, thank God. At last, I realized I was getting warmer. The air was smooth. And rain was falling on me. I figured I was down to 300 or 500 feet. I told myself, 'All I have to do now is make a good landing...
...Full. Even more impressive for the balance sheet is TWA's jet load factor of 92%, which helped hike the line's domestic-revenue passenger miles 5.7% over July 1958. While total revenues rose from $280 million to $307 million for the year ended June 30, operating expenses have stayed level because of the reorganization of the line and staff cuts started by Thomas' predecessor, Carter Burgess, and continued by Thomas...