Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shouts of "isolationist" arose over debate on the Administration's $1,450,000,000 military-aid program. Gathered around South Carolina's Democrat James P. Richards and Ohio's Republican John M. Vorys, a powerful coalition set out to slice the Administration's two-year plan for Western Europe in half. "If you want a two-year program," said Richards, "let's allow for the first year and then come back and take a look...
...appropriating the money, the Council allowed the NSA a loophole. If they sell more than 1000 purchase cards next year, the Council, which is at present getting a big slice of the card earnings, will turn over the first $100 to the men who paid their own board at the convention...
...Parisians call her La Pipelette, after Mme. Pipelet, a garrulous character in a popular French novel (The Mysteries of Paris). Paris knows her well, courts her favor, dreads and cherishes her power and protection. Last week, La Pipelette's very existence was threatened, and with it a bittersweet slice of Parisian life...
Though Fox was still dickering with the Government, it was getting ready for the split-up itself. Fox's Al Lichtman, a hard-knuckled distribution expert, had drafted a plan to get Fox a bigger slice of the box-office receipts...
...Slice it to Your Taste...