Word: takings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subsidy soon exceeded the price at which the oil had been pegged. The effect of generous subsidies on the capital's beef was to bring on an alltime record eating spree, which so increased consumption that Argentina was unable to fulfill its export contracts. Many housewives would not take the trouble to use leftovers; it was easier to throw the meat away and reorder...
After stalling for a month, Sir Stafford Cripps gave in to his doctors' orders, left for a Zurich clinic to take a six-week treatment for an old ailment (colitis...
Such major changes might take years. Meanwhile, the continuing goal of Fagundes and his colleagues is to make sure that the nation's eventual agricultural rebuilding will have a solid foundation...
Opera Singer Kirsten Flagstad had to take vinegar with her tea. Manhattan's Metropolitan, which had snubbed her as a suspected Nazi sympathizer during her first postwar visits to the U.S. in 1947-48, came up with an offer for next season (she turned it down because of previous concert bookings). Meanwhile, in San Francisco, trustees of the War Memorial Opera House canceled her four performances scheduled for this fall, "because of the controversial character of her public appearances elsewhere in the United States...
...sets in use today will be obsolete unless they can be converted to the UHF band. It could also mean that color television, which works only on UHF, is just around the corner. Even so, the FCC moves so slowly and cautiously that something it "proposes" to do might take years...