Word: wined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mixed up on women and wine...
Meanwhile, although Eastern gasoline prices probably will advance 1½?per gallon and wine prices were lifted slightly to cover higher transportation costs, the Government persisted in trying to hold its ceiling prices on most non-farm products and services, thus aiding & abetting a wild buying boom (see below). Strangest decision of all was that of the Federal Communications Commission, which proudly announced that it was saving the U.S. $34,700,000 per year by persuading American Telephone & Telegraph Co. to cut its long-distance overtime rates at the very time when the company is far overburdened with long-distance...
...last was Il Martello (The Hammer). He campaigned in the Pennsylvania coal fields, in Manhattan's garment district. He scrapped with Communists, but above all with Fascists. Yet no one who met the man face to face, who sat down with him and a bottle of red wine at a restaurant table, could help liking him. Personally his enemies seemed few. Politically they were legion...
...slow-motion absent-mindedness." But they were written-usually on his canal boat Ostrogoth)-at rates varying from four days to one month per novel. Says Simenon: "I get up at half-past five; go on deck; start typing at six, with either a bottle of brandy or white wine at my side; and write a chapter an hour until noon, when I go on land and lie down in the grass, exhausted...
Henry J. Kaiser realized another dream last week. At Fontana, Calif., 45 miles east of Los Angeles in the heart of the wine and walnut belt, he watched his wife pull a switch and blow in his new 1,200-ton blast furnace, named in her honor "the Bess." The blowing in of the pig-iron furnace, just eight months after Henry Kaiser broke ground for her where a pig-breeding farm had once flourished, meant that the West Coast for the first time in its history had a fully integrated steel plant...