Word: wrings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long-term plans to dehydrate the capital structures of bankrupt railroads last week ran afoul of the Treasury's plans to wring more taxes from industry. Chairman John Samuel Pyeatt of the Missouri Pacific Railroad-in receivership since 1933-sent a letter to 40,000 bondholders, urged them to reject the ICC-sponsored reorganization plan...
...wring your hands. > Don't put pencils in your hair. > Don't wear clanking bracelets. > Don't talk baby talk. > Don't wear long fingernails. But tint your nails (to avoid being different) unless the superintendent or community objects...
...Congressmen could not have watched it more nervously than they watched the 1941 Tax Bill, just sent in by the Ways & Means Committee. But under the gag rule to bar amendments from the floor (which Republicans planned to fight as usual, expecting as usual to lose) they could only wring their hands, utter a few pained monosyllables, then vote on the bill. They were expected to do their duty by passing it this week...
...have offered Bartlett sets of false teeth, even sold heads of hair for $45. Shearing of the hair-seller was done by a lady barber on a holiday who got $5 for her efforts. One young man brashly agreed to take $2 for every pint of milk he could wring from a cow named Lucky that Bartlett brought to the studio. At show's end, he had made just $2. Other You Sell Me chores are blowing up large balloons till they break, trying to kick oneself in the pants. To protect his show from lawsuits, Bartlett says...
...Napoleon III; home now of gentle President Albert Le-brun-strode a onetime Premier of France one morning last week: Pierre Laval, fresh from Rome. M. Laval was grave. He reported to President Lebrun that there was nothing to be hoped for from the hungry Italians. If anyone could wring concessions from Rome, it should have been the realistic co-author of the ill-fated Hoare-Laval Ethiopian Deal; but he might as well have tried to wring wine from a Parmesan cheese...