Word: trims
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Among them was a letter written in the childish scrawl of his son, the late Edsel Ford, and dated 1901, two years before the first model T went into production: "Dear Santa Claus: I haven't had any Christmas tree in four years and I have broken my trim-ings [sic] and I want some roller skates and I want a book and I can't think of anything else. I want you to think of something else." Andre Marty, 65-year-old Marxist bullyboy of French Communism who has been slipping down the hierarchy of the party...
...contracts often went to inefficient or high-cost producers. Defense Secretary Wilson plans to shake out costly, inefficient production; he also hopes to step up the supply of arms without stepping up arms-spending. With the help of Eisenhower's own knowledge of military ways, Wilson expects to trim the fat out of procurement...
...where she is badly injured during the filming of an underwater picture. For romance, there is a conventional (and fictional) triangle involving the Hippodrome's impresario (David Brian) and Annette's manager, James Sullivan (Victor Mature), whom she married in real life and with whom the still trim, 64-year-old ex-bathing beauty lives today in Santa Monica, Calif...
...with its promise of twelve German divisions, is the only remaining hope for speedy reinforcement. But the prospect of German troops, even in European Army uniforms, frightens the French far more than the Russians. Paris insists on parity with the Germans, but the French idea of parity is to trim down Germany below France's size...
From Los Angeles' International Airport one morning last week, a Scandinavian Airlines DC-6B roared up through the smog and headed north. Its destination: Copenhagen, via the Arctic. To trim roughly 650 miles off the regular California-Europe flight distance, the four-engine plane, with 13 crewmen and 22 passengers aboard, was going to fly where no commercial carrier had ever flown. That afternoon the plane stopped at Edmonton, Alta. After touching down early next morning at the big U.S. Air Force base at Thule, Greenland-a scant 900 miles from the North Pole-the plane was soon airborne...