Word: upping
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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For this plant-doubling, Aluminum Co. set aside $150,000,000 of its own money, earned 1940's gold medal for silent, voluntary expansion for the Defense program. Its soft-shirted, soft-voiced management took the Revolution in its stride. When a new TVA appropriation came up last summer...
Added to tax-loss selling last week was a new December phenomenon: sales to take profits on stocks which had moved up. Since any change in income taxes would be upward (to pay for the defense program), investors with large paper profits hastened to cash them in at the 1940...
Uncle Gyko "was getting all his dope free from the theosophy-philosophy-astrology-and-miscellaneous shelf at the Public Library." He profoundly mistrusted Aram's mentor, Lionel Strongfort. But Strongfort and Yoga together only got Aram a bad last place in the 50-yard dash. So Gyko became again...
...There is also Mr. Mulliner, of the bar parlor at the Angler's Rest, and his multifarious nephews. And there are the legends clustering about the Empress of Blandings, Lord Emsworth's prize pig. As in all major epics, there are minor themes, characters and inspirations-the ups & downs of the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, Lord Emsworth's useless boy, who finally gets himself an American heiress and a job in her father's dog-biscuit business ("I can't think what they would use him for," mused Lord Emsworth, "unless as a taster...
The camp holds some 1,000 British civilians caught by the Nazis in the Low Countries, Scandinavia, France, on the high seas. Wodehouse is one of a group of 60 who share a long dormitory with double-decker bunks. They are allowed to use the high-walled prison yard at...