Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...struggle for control of T.W.A. has been so rough and bitter that friends of Jack Frye thought he would surely look for a nice easy job after he quit as T.W.A.'s president. But this week Frye was elected board chairman of General Aniline & Film Corp., now controlled by the Office of Alien Property Custodian. And G.A.F. is involved in a squabble that makes T.W.A.'s look like a simple game of hopscotch...
...have learned by bitter experience the small regard a Congressman has for mass petitions," said Labor Rights co-chairman Herbert S. Levine '50, "and are changing our tactics accordingly...
...women, and police saw to it that none of the early bathers overstayed their allotted time). During Midsummer Night, they would swarm through their vast woods by the thousands, singing wild songs that echoed over the countryside's countless lakes. Now the silent Lithuanian woods harbor the bitter "brethren of the forest," i.e., anti-Russian guerrillas...
...special privileges. They are known as "limit people" (those who receive the top category of limitnaya kartochka, i.e., ration card). Their ration includes 16 lbs. of meat a month, they are assigned special restaurants, special baths (much of the plumbing is dilapidated), special shows and concerts. A current bitter crack in Riga: "All they are waiting for now is special brothels...
...their prices. Their profits were high enough-and demand for quality goods still heavy-so that they could take a chance on shutting mills making sleazy goods in hopes that the drop in buying was temporary. Some even talked of boosting prices of men's suits. But the bitter facts are that goods are not overproduced so much as simply not wanted at current high prices...