Word: slices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pattern of this school is as dull esthetically as the reactionary pattern of the nationalist school. Both schools trade in local incidents, the class-struggle boys bellyaching that nothing is good enough, the nationalists insisting that it was good enough for Pop and it is good enough for them. . . . Slice it any way you want and it still comes out a literary tract...
...this month you'll be able to get some cash for that wild and woolly post-exam weekend. The pay line will form as usual on Saturday morning, the 15th. And don't forget to pick up your leave papers if you expect to leave town. The one day slice taken out of that leave is set aside for distribution of books, manuals, "reg," etc. and, get this, preparation of Wednesday's assignments...
This prosperity has brought trouble. With a fat slice of their business going into private lockers, the big packers and canners started an all-out push to head off the newcomer. When war started WPB slapped a pile of restrictions on food-locker plants and equipment, forced prospective builders through at least six different agencies before they even sniffed a priority. Then out of nowhere came the rumor: food lockers were to blame for the meat shortage. Even the industry fell down: WPB ordered locker manufacturers to stop chiseling on steel...
...bigger scale than the U.S., Britain has shown her inherent industrial potential. In the course of the war she has sharply increased the skill and efficiency of her labor. Her proved ability to build high-grade aircraft, plus her far-flung bases, should give her a substantial slice of postwar air traffic. Finally, to the degree that she is able to curb inflation, she will emerge with a relatively favorable level of prices and costs...
...goods we can produce best," said he, "obviously we must not bar those nations from our own market." He carefully omitted any reference to Great Britain, which happens to constitute the crucial postwar trade problem for three reasons: 1) British and American trade before the war was the biggest slice of all world trade; 2) discriminatory U.S. tariffs played a large part in driving Britain to discriminatory Empire agreements and may do so again; 3) British industrial exports are precisely those which will compete with many a product made by members of N.A.M...