Word: slice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people against tax cuts? Lu-bell's subjects gave three principal reasons: i) the individual family's slice would be too thin to make much difference; 2) tax cuts would be of no direct help to the unemployed; and 3) "the country needs the money." An Iowa milkman, a Georgia welder, a Texas printer, a California autoworker and a New Jersey insurance salesman all used almost identical words: "It would help me personally, but how can the Government run without money? And what will we do about the Russians...
...after Nikita Khrushchev was anointed Premier and dictator nonpareil of the Soviet Union (see FOREIGN NEWS), he was back in business at the same old cold-war propaganda stand, ready with another thick slice for all comers, especially the U.S. Ignoring the fact that Russia had just completed a smashing series of nuclear tests, Khrushchev's government protested the U.S. tests scheduled for April through August in the Marshall Islands...
...slice of all pre-tax profits above 10% of the value of shareholders' equity, i.e., the value of stocks plus surplus. Had the plan been in effect last year, each U.A.W. worker would have drawn a bonus of $591 at G.M., $500 at Ford, $323 at Chrysler. Estimated cost to G.M.: $275 million...
...equal slice of Kay Kendall, Gregory Peck, Tennessee Williams and a host of other gold-plated names? For new light on the vast organization that collects these tidy percentages, keeps itself in the dark as much as it keeps its clients in the limelight, and controls much of what the U.S. sees in movies and TV, see BUSINESS, 10% of Everything...
Arsenic & Old Cake. In Christchurch, New Zealand, Policewoman Audrey Amos posted a notice in the Central Police Station cafeteria advising the person who had taken a slice of peanut caramel cake from her office to return it because the cake was part of the evidence in a food-poisoning case...