Word: teapots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pension of $37,000. Therefore, something more than his $155,000-a-year salary was needed as an incentive to keep him running the corporation. But few oilmen believed that there was any danger of Sinco quitting. He had never been a quitter, not even during the ill-famed Teapot Dome scandal...
ABSIE is no teapot station. It has 12 medium-wave transmitters, rooms full of U.S.-built technical equipment, modern studios, offices, and a staff of 90 Americans, stuffed into a vast warehouse in a corner of London. Its output will not differ greatly from BBC's-primarily news and its interpretation, feature talks, advice for the European underground, popular and straight music-but it will present the U.S. viewpoint, in six languages...
From that moment the afternoon's quiet lay shattered. A teapot-tempest burbled through the House. All the country's discontent with Winston Churchill's management of home affairs whistled over...
...year of Teapot Dome and Mah Jong and Emile Coué and the dance marathons- of the play Rain and the book Black Oxen-of the new airline to Chicago and the year-old dictator named Mussolini in Italy...
...Teapot Tempest. The immediate sector was the renewed fight over subsidies-an issue more boring to the average citizen than the oldtime tariff, and much less understandable...