Word: rationalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Also named were a pair of law partners who had been associated with Marcus in various business deals and a bakery-union official convicted during World War II of ration-stamp violations. Then there was Henry Fried, 68, a onetime (1955-57) member of the New York State commission of correction and currently president of S. T. Grand, Inc., the construction firm that was given the Jerome Park job by Marcus-without competitive bidding...
...friend recalls how, when Johnson was a Congressman during World War II, he informed Cook Zephyr Wright that he was bringing some important people home for a steak dinner. Unable to scrape up enough red ration stamps for steak, Zephyr fretfully asked Nellie Connally, wife of Texas' Governor John Connally, who was then a naval officer, what she should tell Johnson. "Nellie said to tell him that he's just like everybody else," said the friend. "Zephyr thought a moment and then said, 'Well, Mrs. Connally, you know he is like everybody else, and I know...
...helmeted Marine blinks in the afternoon light, cocks his head for a moment, listening intently, and then starts jogtrotting down the hill. With frayed trousers flapping and a cumbersome flak jacket jiggling against his bare chest, he makes his way through the debris of cartridge boxes and C-ration cans. Deep, viscous red mud sucks at his boots and oozes up to his knees as he struggles down the slope. Suddenly, from high above, comes a familiar, chilling whine. "Incoming!" someone yells, and the leatherneck flattens himself in the mud. The artillery shell bursts 50 yards from him, gouging...
Shortly thereafter, Nasser's socialist regime produced a new emergency budget that showed he was not kidding. It imposed higher taxes on the middle and upper classes, raised workers' compulsory monthly savings by 50%, reduced overtime pay, cut the sugar ration by a third, and curtailed practically all major industrial programs. Only military expenditures were increased, by $140 million to an estimated $1 billion, exclusive of some of the hidden barter arrangements with the Soviet bloc. Nasser also increased the price of beer (by 50 a bottle), cigarettes (50 a pack), long-distance bus and railroad fares...
Cautiously waiting until the weekend close of business, the Treasury announced that its dwindling stock of silver would no longer be available at the $1.29 bargain price. Instead, the Government will sell for whatever the market will bear-and ration such sales to just 2,000,000 oz. a week rather than the generous 4,000,000 or so it had been letting go recently...