Word: slicing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians got a special plum in their slice of the German capital-the world-famous, 139-year-old University of Berlin. Ever since the city was divided among the conquerors, non-Communist students and teachers have been trying to start a new university in the western sectors. Last week they had it. Its name: the Free University of Berlin...
...Payoff. Capital, too, proved worthy of its hire. Net profits for the year were an estimated $21 billion, compared to $17.4 billion the year before. (Industry's slice of the national pie was still slightly smaller than its record in 1929.) Though some of this profit was fictitious, i.e., a profit on inventory rather than actual sales, many an industry had done so well that even a drop in profits next year would leave it well off. As one businessman put it: "Our earnings have been superduper. From now on they'll be merely super...
...first-foot it for other Lancastrians who have the misfortune to be blonde (an unlucky omen for anyone who has to first-foot for a household). This means that each time she arrives at a home bearing her good omens there will be a glass of wine and a slice of bun loaf awaiting...
...Biggest Slice. Just what did labor, with its new power and its new responsibility, want in its own field? To some, it looked as if the answer was simply that it wanted a hand in management. Answering Henry Ford II's statement that a fourth round of wages would necessitate higher prices, the U.A.W.'s Emil Mazey declared: "Our bargaining team can show Mr. Ford next spring that he can give a wage increase without raising the price of automobiles. Our experts will be glad to sit down with him and his associates, go over his books...
...appreciably. By last weekend more than 60 separate resolutions had been dumped into the laps of conference subcommittees. Many, like Austria's pet project for an international conference in Vienna to standardize the A pitch in the musical scale, bore all the earmarks of a bid for a slice of celestial pork...