Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Faith always that we will win this herculean struggle ... is a prime requisite of 130,000,000 Americans. But individual character, individual ability to say "No" to the black-market scavenger, the political pork-barrel, the easy money which may produce inflation and lose the war for us-seems utterly basic...
...four months barrel-bellied Leon Henderson devoted himself: 1) to Havana, Mexico and California, 2) to restoring his bridge reputation as "the best goddam no-trump player in the world," 3) to blocking traffic in such cities of narrow streets as Acapulco by strolling down them in an enormous Mexican sombrero and multicolored fringed scrape, followed by from 20 to 30 small boys, to whom he would occasionally toss a handful of centavos. The four months totally cured his acute case of Washingtonitis...
Skyrocketing prices, a shrunken supply and the furious wartime demand for used cars has OPA looking down the barrel of another gun. Used cars are a vital reserve in the nation's wire-taut transportation system. That reserve is dissolving swiftly, under the attack of a demand that has already forced prices up an estimated 160 to 180% (based on prewar depreciation figures...
...Chicago, 500 dealers reflect the same gloom. From the January high, when dealers had a 143-day supply on hand, less than a 60-day supply remains, 40% down from a year ago. On the West Coast, dealers have scraped through the bottom of the barrel. Throughout the country, ancient jalopies, hardly worth a junk price of $10 a few months ago, move quickly at $50 and up. Also setting established dealers to biting their nails are the number of "clean deals" (without trade-ins). The clean deal rate, normally 10 to 15% of sales, has soared...
...Garand rifles need no longer be fired to line up the sights for factory tests. A new method of testing the sights, developed in the General Electric laboratories, uses a plug holding a mirror inserted in the barrel to line up images of front and rear sights on a screen. Time, ammunition and manpower are thus saved...