Word: stewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week some Wall Streeters were saying that the tax stew was overdone. For one thing, Congressmen seemed to be getting somewhere with their general sales tax (to ease the burden on corporations and the great middle-class). For another, even if dividend rates were cut in half, most stocks would yield...
Come & Get It. There are no less than 39 items on the Army's ration chart. Even the iron rations of 1942 (a can of pork & beans, a can of meat and vegetable hash, a can of meat and vegetable stew, three cans of biscuit bread, enough soluble bean to make a pint of coffee, a square of chocolate candy) are a vast improvement over the "tinned willie" of World...
...Fort Worth, Tex., Mrs. W. L. Stew art could not believe that her foster son was dead, refused to take the money from his insurance. Last week the Navy told her she was right: Carl Frank Stewart, badly wounded, will live...
...fall by what happened. Failure here would put the whole Empire into an awful funk. Even the U.S. might shy back out if Britain came another cropper here. The Imperial General Staff, shaken around on the eve of this attack (see p. 22), would be in a pretty bad stew to find a next move...
...Four Stars. Up to his shoulder boards in the boiling Far Eastern stew, Tommy Hart last week found time to play a bit of golf, take a few members of his staff to the movies. Too old a sea dog to bark before biting, he still had a twinkle in his weather eye as he kept it cocked on his nautical domain. The beat he patrols is large - from Wake west to China - but the Admiral knows it like the back of his hand...