Word: slicing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Farrar, Straus & Cudahy; $3.75), is a novel with a curiously old fashioned, even Gothic air. An old, wealthy brewer is slowly dying of heart disease in a provincial Belgian town. Around him hovers a cluster of relatives who live for nothing more than the huge fortune they hope to slice. Only one person cares nothing for his money-an illegitimate daughter whom he has acknowledged, taken into his home and educated. Anything but original as a plot-but Author Françoise Mallet-Joris, still only 27, has already proved (The Red Room, TIME, July 16, 1956) that...
FEED-GRAIN CROP will grow to new high this year, slice pork prices next summer. Because of favorable weather and 47-million-ton carryover from surplus in earlier years, output of feed corn, oats, barley and grain sorghums will rise 6% to 213 million tons...
...chew a slice...
...Courts are not fitted to judge whether a cartel is harmful to the economy or not. That is my job." Only Adenauer's intercession forced Erhard to accept a compromise bill permitting exceptions for "crisis" cartels and retail-price-fixing rings. "Damned little butter for such a big slice of dry bread," snorted Erhard as the Bundestag passed the bill. Yet even this watered-down law makes Germany the first European country to take a stand in principle against "associations in restraint of competition...
...contralto voice said, "The Dagmar show is out, and Ed Sullivan doesn't look good." Green hung up and took a slice of cinnamon toast. "Did you know," he said, "that Nathan Pusey was a classmate of mine...