Word: slice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tense with expectation, the correspondents in the courtyard began to sense that the bitter, three-week fight of crippled Chancellor Snowden to get for Britain a larger slice of the German Reparations "spongecake" (TIME, Aug. 19 et seq.) was all but won. From midnight on the Continental powers steadily though stubbornly yielded. Soon after the ancient Binnenhof clock clanged one it was known that Mr. Snowden had received and accepted an offer satisfying 82% of his demands. After a month of false rumors of agreement correspondents would believe the welcome truth only if uttered by drawn-faced, cripple Snowden himself...
...which fixed for the first time the total Germany must pay in Reparations. Neither Chancellor Snowden nor anyone else has made the slightest objections to this basic feature of the Plan. The whole quarrel at The Hague has been among the Creditor Powers, squabbling over how big a slice each could get. Abruptly last week the squabbling delegates were reminded of the basic-issue by Germany's Foreign Minister, bold, astute Dr. Gustav Stresemann...
...fiscal powers in Manhattan and London. None could inform him better than Tycoons Lamont and Norman. After hearing their views Mr. MacDonald flew back to Lossiemouth, cogitated through the night, finally issued a startling manifestation in support of Chancellor Snowden's demand that the Empire receive a larger slice of the reparations "sponge cake...
...annual sales total one billion dollars, Swift & Co. will this year probably move, having done nearly a billion dollars a year for many a year. But big, energetic Louis F. Swift,* who works all day at a stand-up desk, gets as profits for his company only a small slice (less than 2%) of his gross...
...similarly unnamed principal which later proved to be the Pennsylvania (TIME, June 24). Furthermore, the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton was one of the roads included in the Baltimore & Ohio's plan for a greater and longer B. & O. (TIME, March 4). Just as the Canton purchase was virtually a slice carved out of B. & O.'s own backyard, so the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton seemed to be another Penn scoop...