Word: barrelful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Workers, confident they would get from the Navy what management had refused them, jubilantly went back to work. Fiscal arrangements, operating methods remained to be figured out, but the management reassuringly offered its knowledge and experience, turned real estate, buildings, ships and unperformed contracts, lock, stock & barrel, over to Navy's Knox; just compensation could be figured out later...
...grant the U.S. military muscles. Toward Japan Welles has had a clear policy of distrust. But again he has been an "appeaser," because he has consistently favored trading with Japan until the U.S. is ready for any consequences. Last week he had come to the bottom of the diplomatic barrel. There were almost no diplomatic moves left unmade. The problem of the Japanese would sooner or later be turned over to the Navy and its Commander in Chief...
Roll Out the Barrel. Most pusillanimous attempt to catch votes came in the section dealing with farm-commodity prices. In this session the Congressional farm bloc has repeatedly wrested huge gains for the farmer from the Administration, only two months ago forced the parity price up from 75 to 85%. (Parity is an artificial dream goal, based on the average farm price in relation to farm purchasing power for the years 1909-14.) The Administration, giving ground steadily before the farm inflationists, was now willing to grant 100% of parity. But in the desperate anxiety of last week...
...Knight of the Mannerheim Order-Finland's highest military honor-by decree of Commander in Chief Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim. There are only three other Knights-two colonels and a major general. Private Raetoe made a fourth by capturing a Russian anti-tank gun singlehanded, sighting along its barrel, from which the sights had been lost, wrecking four Soviet tanks...
Manager Ruhl had never made a gun or a gun part. Nor, so far as he knew, had any of his workmen. The specialized knowledge had to come from Inventor Johnson himself and from the boss of his barrel shop, an acidulous, gun-goofy Swede named Carl Ekdahl. By their joint ingenuity Johnson, Ekdahl, Ruhl & Co. had by last week piled up 5,300 finished barrels, 11,000 more barrels in process, 10,000 breech bolts, hundreds and thousands of other parts, before a gun was assembled...