Word: slicing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pared so sharply as in Belgium. Yet last week Elder Statesman Theunis, backed by two of Belgium's richest men. Minister Without Portfolio Emile Francqui (banks, copper) and Finance Minister Camille Gutt (Katanga Copper), pared 5% more off Government pensions and salaries, 50%, off rent allowances, a big slice off relief allowances to the provinces...
...Floyd Bostwick Odium's Atlas Corp. Consolidated's corporate troubles had begun with a post-War expansion during which it acquired a string of lithograph companies and a $3,000,000 debt. Atlas Corp., through a subsidiary, acquired some five-year notes covering the fattest slice of this debt ($1,600,000), together with 40,000 shares of Consolidated stock. Into the maw of Atlas Corp. many companies go but few return. Consolidated was the exception. Smooth, hustling President Jacob A. Voice scraped together all the profits the company had, pledged his personal stock and life insurance policies...
...which the chief used in testing out the strength of his tribesmen. When he brought in a whale, the Indians formed a circle around the chief, and he hurled the ball at them. When any brave dropped it, he was "out." The last man remaining got an especially large slice of the catch as prize...
...Again the New Deal administration convicts itself of the charge of using Federal relief funds for political purposes and as a substitute for a campaign fund. Curiously enough every State except Maine received a slice. Maine has already voted. Maine, under the Farley plan of Tammanyizing the country, manifestly is recorded as having had hers...
Race results reached the U. S. about 10 a. m. that day. Wychwood Abbot, a horse, had come from behind to beat Commander III, also a horse, by a half length. Highlander was third. For the U. S. that meant the biggest slice of sweepstakes prizes it had ever won. Total receipts of the lottery had been about $16,000,000, of which an estimated $3,750,000 had gone from the U. S. Back now to the U. S. in prizes would come some $2,600,000, of which the U. S. Government expects to collect about...