Word: ashcan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simple explanation. Skyrocketing war production knocked peacetime measuring sticks into the statistical ashcan. Example: the chemical industry. In peacetime, chemical production weighs little in FRB's scales. Thus, when the industry mushroomed under astronomical orders for explosives, the FRB index failed to show it. To rectify this, FRB boosted the statistical importance of this industry, added some 20 others to the index and found new yardsticks, e.g., in the converted rubber industry, man-hours worked replaced the former measure of activity-rubber consumption. All this forced FRB to boost the index 36 points to 243 (1935-39 average equals...
...daughter Julia (16). He went through the routine which is designed to round out an air general: War College, Supply, Air Corps Engineering School, instructor in observation. In France in 1940 he riled other military observers by recommending that the U.S. throw its Air Force into the ashcan-"It's so out of date for the kind of war the Germans are going to have here...
...these extramarital relaxations were not enough, then there were two other good reasons for dropping Serrano into the political ashcan. Three months ago in Rome, Pope Pius XII dressed him down for his sparsity of morals and his abundance of pro-Axis sympathies. Leaving the audience in a white rage, Serrano reportedly cracked: "This fellow is impossible!" In Catholic Spain the slur was intolerable. Even worse was Serrano's bumble of Aug. 15 when his Falangist thugs tossed a grenade into a crowd coming out of Bilbao Cathedral...
Norman Corwin is an outrageously imaginative young man who got his start in radio eight years ago by broadcasting an interview with the ashcan-rolling champion of Springfield, Mass. He fashioned 1939's most dramatic anti-fascist program, They Fly through the Air with the Greatest of Ease. He aired the by now classical radio drama about Curley the Caterpillar (TIME, April...
Anyhow, the dance couldn't go on without the cooperation of every House, and so it was sent to the ashcan, with the public no wiser and no sadder...