Word: siphoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took on board a couple of bottles of wine and a siphon. A slender young boy joined us. "Who is he?" I inquired. "Son," said Tito laconically. Aleksander, or Misa as everyone calls him, is a skinny child with big wide eyes. Later, before I took their picture, the dictator took a comb and smoothed down the boy's unruly hair...
...make Suetonius look like a cub from the Christian Science Monitor. She even knew what the inside of Garbo's dressing room looked like ("the black hole of Calcutta"). Studio publicity men, hard up for a story, always knew where to get it: go out and latch a siphon on to Hopper...
...charged Lustig and aides with keeping two sets of books to defraud the U.S., other devious ways of hiding profits. One was to siphon $2,000,000 from restaurant tills to a safe-deposit box of Lustig's. Another way: taking the tips of hat-check girls...
...Government census of fortunes, in itself a radical departure from French financial tradition. Hitherto a passionate anonymity has shrouded the wealth of individual Frenchmen. The Government, said Minister Pleven, had discovered that France had 1,300 billion francs of national wealth in liquid form. His levies on wealth would siphon off 10% of this liquidity...
...rest of U.S. business, was well aware that profit figures had become deceptive, mainly because of the increasing complexities of tax and reconversion problems. Actually G.M. made less this year, after taxes and renegotiation reserves, than last. Its profits were up mainly because it no longer needed to siphon off some $16,000,000 into its postwar fund, as it did the first half of last year. Few businessmen dared estimate 1944's total earnings on the basis of the first half. The end of the European war might make the most careful present estimate look nonsensical...