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...Board and the War Labor Board debated on how they should treat F.A.A., Packard shut down and sent its 39,000 workers home. With foremen missing, Army inspectors feared faulty workmanship and refused to accept any more Packard motors (Rolls-Royce motors for Mustang fighters. Mosquito bombers). In stubborn anguish the potent Automotive Council for War Production (which includes all auto-makers), warning in large newspaper ads that recognition of the foremen's union would mean letting labor leaders "take over the management of our war production plants," appealed to the President and Congress to do something...
Under the stress of pre-induction anguish, the protagonist, a former employe of the Inter-American Travel Bureau, b haves very badly. He quarrels with his well-meaning relatives, insults his friends, lives off his wife because he sees no point in getting a job that can only be tem porary. He also plays around with a trol lop, and whenever he grows too utterly unhappy, goes out walking in the rain, getting his feet wet to spite everybody...
...city in the U.S., the words 'The dam has broken' have for generations meant hell and anguish." So cried a citizen of Johnstown, Pa. after the disastrous 1936 flood. Last week Johnstown celebrated the finishing of a flood-control project which the city hopes has freed it from deluge forever...
...pleading with the members. Congressmen worried desperately over the political effect of the bill on mothers & fathers. But Sam Rayburn was convinced that defeat of the bill would be disastrous to the U.S. When the day for the vote arrived, Sam Rayburn was in a state of honest mental anguish; neither he nor anyone else knew for certain how the votes would go. As the clerk called the roll, Sam kept accurate count: the final tally showed the bill passed 203-202. Before any coward could switch his vote, Sam Rayburn, in a shrewd tactical move, announced the total, gaveled...
Weeping Mothers. Carlson's is no all-male show. Nazi-admirer Dr. Maude S. DeLand also approved of the Japs because, she explained, "they always returned borrowed books." Mrs. Mary Tappendorf, of the Chicago Mothers, was rent with anguish over the WACS: "What do they want to do with girls in the front lines? I'll tell you-It's SEX-and that's Mrs. Eleanor's idea, too. . . . They tell [the boys] they'll go insane without...