Word: bandwagons
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...have no military importance. Some argue that if secrecy is continued too long, the U.S. may sit back, cocky and self-assured, while other nations catch up and forge ahead. Their recommendation: release all secrets not strictly military. Then U.S. industry, informed and excited, could climb on the atomic bandwagon and gain an unchallengeable lead, as it has in auto manufacturing...
...large slice, for other Europeans were considered to be relatively inferior and undesirable. The emigration motivations of the latter were thought to be economic rather than religious or political. Unskilled and numerous, they appeared to menace full employment, the standard of living, and the assimilation process. A popular political bandwagon to jump on in 1924, restricted immigration appealed at once to lunatic fringe racists, the Southern-gentryeld-aristocrat groups and workers seeing vague threats to jobs, wage standards, and advancement opportunities. There was no opposition--restriction was unanimous...
Most recent to climb aboard the get-rich-at-the-writer's-expense bandwagon is the government. When a New York court decided that receipts from the sale of movie rights constitute income, not property, and that consequently these receipts could not be taxed at the low rate for capital gains, the government moved in, reviewed old sales, and cleaned up. But if the writer dies, his work magically becomes property and his beneficiaries receive an inheritance eaten away by property taxes...
Backtracking fast, Mayor Healey announced that the suspension hearings were canceled, that the rookies would be restored to duty. But it was too late. An independent, veteran-backed ticket was gunning for the whole city administration in the fall elections. Last week, atop the bandwagon and not at all embarrassed, the Fearless Four had everything but their raise...
...midsummer evening just 20 years ago this week, Warner Brothers decided-very cagily, as it turned out-that sound movies were here to stay.* When the public wholeheartedly agreed, the rest of Hollywood scrambled aboard the bandwagon...