Word: slipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rich, booming, and afloat with dull-eyed suckers, it is an irresistible target for shady operators, con men, burglars, jewel thieves and tired Eastern torpedoes-all of whom slip into sport coats and slacks on arrival. Murders are often bizarre. Elizabeth Short, nicknamed the "Black Dahlia," became the most highly publicized corpse in the country after a citizen left her slashed body on a vacant lot. A Mrs. Mary James was dispatched with more finesse-her husband thrust her foot into a box containing a rattlesnake, gave her a drink of whisky and then drowned her in the bathtub...
Message from Molotov. The visiting Foreign Ministers sighed with relief and started packing. Dean Acheson was in his office when an aide brought in a slip of paper. Acheson read the note and burst out laughing. It was a message from Andrei Vishinsky, who had himself just received a message from Molotov in Moscow, requesting that the final communique on the conference be held up and that the Ministers convene once more...
With new industries abuilding and others blueprinted, Chile was like a specialty shop expanding to department-store size. Then the price of copper, Chile's specialty, started to slip. Last week, when it hit 16? a Ib. (down from 23½? a lb. since March 29), Chileans began wondering just how long they would be in business...
...have to do a still better one. To meet the increasing demands for power, he said, the industry should spend $1 billion a year on expansion. He warned that power-men should not be lulled into thinking that long-term demands would lessen just because business had started to slip off. Said he: The current slide in business might last until the second quarter of next year. By the end of 1951, there should be an upturn that may bring production right back up to where...
...Prize. This time there was to be no slip-up when it came to the payoff. Louis Johnson raised the money for the campaign, when the Democratic Party treasury was at its lowest. It was a great political service and Fund Raiser Johnson knew what he wanted. Harry Truman made a few halfhearted attempts to fob him off with offers of the sub-Cabinet Army secretaryship or the Court of St. James's. But Louis Johnson stood fast. The weekend after his inauguration, President Harry Truman let Louis Johnson know that the prize was his at last...