Word: slicings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Louis and the mother of eight, was elected "Mrs. Unemployed American Mother." Her family food allowance: $58.85 a month. Rent allowance: $10. Mrs. Roosevelt was invited to sit next Mrs. Easley at a reliefer's dinner. The menu: 2 oz. beef stew, % carrot, 1 onion, % potato, % slice of bread, 1 pat of oleomargarine, 1 canned prune. Mrs. Roosevelt agreed that the dinner was not quite enough...
...with 88 teeth to the inch, to a ten-foot spiral, inserted-tooth monster used for lumber and metal cutting (two were ordered last week for Allied munitions plants). Disston knives, files and other tools cut sugar beets, chop gunpowder, smooth bricks, polish playing-card backs, perforate newspapers, slice caramels. Disston saws also go to amateur musicians and into vaudeville at the rate of about 500 a year. Specially made, musical saws are flat-ground, straight-backed, smooth so the notes will run through the whole blade...
...Staten Island, N. Y., and on San Francisco Bay. Youngest, most profitable of the Big 3, it has grossed over $1,000,000,000, netted more than $100,000,000 in its 23-year corporate life. On or nearing its 23 ways last week was the fattest slice of 1940's shipbuilding boom: 60 merchant and naval vessels worth a cool...
...Before breakfast, ½ gal. of buttermilk. Typical breakfast: 1 doz. fried eggs, a huge ½-in.-thick slice of ham, 1 doz. hard rolls, 1 qt. black coffee. Dinner: 1 doz. raw oysters, chicken gumbo, terrapin stew, two canvasback ducks, mashed potatoes, lima beans, macaroni, asparagus, cole slaw, stewed corn, 1 hot mince pie, 1 qt. coffee; 1 bottle sauterne, 1 qt. champagne, several cognacs. He particularly liked a 7-lb. beefsteak, 1½-in. thick, so rare it was hardly warm.. * A violation of a major canon of the American Bar Association, which, however, never peeped until some...
...tell all he knows, Britain's Purvis last week gave no breakdown of his first $200,000,000-plus in orders for the newest model U. S. ships. But the general division was soon noised about. To Douglas went the big slice: $75,000,000 for 750 attack-bombers. Curtiss got around $57,000,000 for 1,500 new pursuits. Bell $18,000,000 for 200 Airacobras. To the three engine builders went some $52,000,000, most ($34,000,000) to Allison, already busy with expansion of its Indianapolis plant and making some parts (e. g., crank...