Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Erector Set. Although dispatches did not identify the type of bridge, it was a safe bet that it was a Bailey-a British invention which has carried Allied armies across the river-seamed face of Europe and is a main reliance in their coming big battle: the spanning of the Rhine. Field Marshal Montgomery calls the Bailey bridge "quite the best thing in its line we have ever had." The bridge, at once simple and ingenious, was first sketched on the back of an envelope in 1940 by a tweedy British civil engineer named Donald Colman Bailey...
...their lives. The Senate Military Affairs Committee,* after listening to the protests of such varied antidraft groups as the National Association of Manufacturers, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the C.I.O., the A.F. of L., railway labor, the National Farmers Union, the National Grange, etc., had smothered the makeshift May-Bailey bill, which might have done...
...Secure on the Home Front. The big, soft pillow used to smother the May-Bailey bill was another bill whipped up by West Virginia's New Dealing Senator Harley M. Kilgore, whose constituency is heavily weighted with labor votes, mostly United Mine Workers. The Kilgore measure would hand the manpower problem over to Paul V. McNutt's War Manpower Commission (which has fumbled it from the beginning). It would give neither WMC nor anyone else the authority needed in the crisis. Labor and management have come out for the Kilgore bill...
...inevitable result of this failure of American democracy is now becoming apparent at this crisis of the war. Shortages, deadly shortages, are now looming up." The House, Mr. Stimson noted, rose to the occasion by passing the May-Bailey bill...
Wheel-Chair Vote. Prayer and preliminaries over, Bailey moved that the Senate go into executive session to vote on the confirmation of Henry Wallace. Such a motion is not debatable. If passed, it meant that the Senate would certainly turn Henry Wallace down. This was the showdown. Did the anti-Wallacemen have the votes? To gather them all, they had persuaded Nevada's pale, ailing James Scrugham, 65, to leave Naval Hospital, had brought him to the chamber in a wheel chair...