Word: slicing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Passed by the House last week was a $6,237,000,000 appropriation bill, of which the Navy gets the largest slice: $5,595,000,000-almost four billion of it for air. Main item is $2,862,000,000 for 14,600 airplanes, assuring the Navy of its 27,500 "program airplanes" early in 1944. About $36,000,000 is for 72 blimps, raising the blimp patrol total...
...terrible decision had to be made-who should eat? From limited food stocks, soldiers and defense workers were fed enough to keep them going. The rest of the city's 3,000,000 men, women & children were given only 125 grams of bread a day -about a slice and a half. From starvation, cold, disease and German bombs more than 1,000,000 died. The rest fought...
...mysteries of contemporary publishing has been a cadaverous onetime pulp writer named Joseph Hilton Smyth. Four years ago he suddenly emerged from Greenwich Village obscurity, bought the venerable magazines Living Age and North American Review. Then he bought into Current History. Before long he bought a good slice of the staid Saturday Review of Literature. He also founded a weekly newsletter called The Foreign Observer, a press service called the Negro News Syndicate...
...part of its wartime program aimed at lower student living costs, the Student Council will present to the Harvard Athletic Committee tomorrow a plan of athletic economies designed to slice fees for participation tickets, contribution books, and lockers...
...business. When in May 1941 President Roosevelt announced the super-duper heavy-bomber program, Phil Johnson was right on the ball, gave Air Chief "Hap" Arnold a four-point program which is still the framework of the $3 billion-plus U.S. bomber program. Soon he had snagged a whacking slice of the whole schedule for his own bombers...