Word: formula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formula behind the achievement liad been painfully simple: eat less, work more, which to British planners meant: cut imports, increase exports. If it worked once, said the White Paper, it ought to work again. Britons might get a few more eggs, otherwise rations would stay the same. On this dreary diet they were being asked during the coming year to hike production by roughly the same percentages as they had achieved in the past year...
Late in the show, there is a good, rousing fire, and in the long run the hero makes one part of the West safe for bullion runners. It is all moderately entertaining formula, done with a slight extra edge of care, humor and understanding-except for Jane Greer...
News of Bob Knetzer's magic formula spread quickly beyond Southern Illinois' coal and farm country. St. Louis and Springfield gangsters, who would rather go without a rod than a Cadillac, scurried with cash in hand to Bob's classy showroom, across the street from Edwardsville's courthouse. Orders came from as far away as California and South America. Cash poured in, cars rolled out and Bob, at 37, was rich...
...firm land corridor to her settlements in the Negeb. Israeli forces were also hammering closer & closer to Gaza, chief Arab supply base on the coast. Politician Ben-Gurion also hoped that U.N. delegates in Paris, now discussing Palestine, would agree with Israel that the best solution was an old formula: possession is nine points...
During the rest period, engineers will confer with FCC on some sort of new formula for giving the public better TV service. An example of the kind of subject to be discussed: the spacing of TV stations, which engineers are not yet agreed on. Some think that stations should be widely separated, others that they can be packed together like sardines without interfering with one another...