Word: gist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dealer, and the receipt shows that Göring paid 200,000 marks ($80,000) for it. Hofer estimated the value of the picture at $150,000. There is also a rather acrid exchange of letters in the Göring files between Hofer and a Swiss lawyer, the gist of which is that the Reich Marshal was expected to pay more than he did for a certain item...
...gist: fix the selling price of the plants on the basis of their actual postwar "use" value, rather than on their sky-high original cost...
This week, as a supplement to its May issue, FORTUNE pub lishes an analysis of Dumbarton Oaks by a group of TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE editors. The gist...
Last week, as the recurrent seriousness of the food situation hit home once again (see U.S. AT WAR), grain shippers and elevator operators deluged the Office of Defense Transportation with appeals for help. Gist of the appeals: ODT should get tough and force Eastern railroads to return thousands of cars belonging to Western railroads. As the appeal was made, such grain-hauling roads as the Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Chicago Burlington & Quincy, and Chicago Rock Island & Pacific had only a little over half of their own cars on their lines...
...Reporter Earl Banner zipped into Montreal, shot a quick glance around, then sat down and whipped off a dispatch for the Boston Daily Globe and the New York Times. Gist: Canadians are living the life of Riley; there are no shortages of meat, butter, cigarets, liquor, fuel, women's & children's clothing. In fact, said Reporter Banner, "rationing has inflicted just one inconvenience" on Canadians-they have to tear out stamps...