Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stop calling the American worker "complacent," and allow him to buy a roast of beef every week. Throw some chloride of lime on the stink in Washington, and the nation will get its 100% production...
...week bubbled over into the press. The New Dealing New York Post, which has hammered away at the State Department, saw in Sumner Welles's position an analogy with Anthony Eden's predicament after Munich. The Post suggested that Mr. Welles resign, as did Mr. Eden, and "allow events and the people to vindicate him." The left-wing Nation offered as its remedy the dismissal of Mr. Hull, admitting in the next breath that such a thing could and would not take place...
Since the Department will not allow women aboard ships, it looks like Vic Chew will have to give Dorrie an F.T.P. number and class "Q" stowage to get her aboard that next good duty...
...Worse yet, tuberculosis germs were transmitted to humans through cows' milk. The year he became bureau chief (1917) John Mohler swung out against bovine tuberculosis. There was only one cure for it : killing all cattle who had it. John Mohler traipsed across the land, pleading with farmers to allow tuberculin tests ; ruthlessly ordering the cattle shot when the tests were positive. In those days U.S. farmers resented Federal interference heartily; no dang Gov'ment man was going to shoot their cows...
More Bombers. Consolidated announced its $10,000 handout last February after grudging approval of the regional War Labor Board ("Loyalty cannot be bought"). Every Consolidated worker who had not missed a day's work in the month preceding the drawing or had not been tardy (later relaxed to allow one ten-minute tardiness per week) was eligible. At the first drawing (March 15) Consolidated's president, Harry Woodhead, announced that after one month of the plan there had been a drop in absenteeism, enabling the company to push out six and a half more bombers that month...