Word: bonanzas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Born Yesterday" begins and ends in the comfortable Washington apartment of Harry Brock, junk-dealer grown plump through sleight-of-hand in the war surplus bonanza. Against a backdrop of dignitaries come to sell their souls for a cut in Harry's ill-gotten gains, Billie--once a chorine in "Anything Goes"--alternately flits and slinks. Her Flatbush lingo leaves the wives of senators non-plussed; journalist Paul Verrill is assigned to "teach her a few things...
...record in history, coaches, college fathers and alumni are keeping cars tuned to the future of dear old Siwash, its pigskin stalwarts and the stadium mortgage. As is invariably the case with many Universities that over-emphasize the fall sport, most everyone has a finger in the glorious November bonanza; the lesser sports survive because 50,000 partisans watch the classic tussle with Toothpaste Tech and pay well for the privilege; fresh-water deans rarely overlook the essential value of such a "well-rounded athletic program." Everyone waves the banner except the stalwarts themselves, who are too busy nudging Minnesota...
...advances of industrial unionism. Hanson Baldwin, naval expert of the New York Times, last week traced a whole epidemic of wartime sins to the activities of sea-going unions, and continued to east a good deal of doubt over the accomplishments of the merchant fleet. Using charges of bonanza payments, lack of discipline and even draft-dodging, Baldwin and various American Legion commanders have managed to cloud the record of the Merchant Marine and turn an unfortunate public confusion into a glorious stew of red herrings, union-baiting and war-storying...
American womanhood had never struck so rich a bonanza as during the wartime expansion of the U.S. merchant marine. Superstition of the sea had busied thousands of nervous feminine hands with the christening of ships. And after smashing her bottle, each ship sponsor took home a souvenir gift. Some of the trinkets would have lit fire in the eyes of a Follies girl...
With the Kaiser-Liberty ship bonanza, the government went into the shipping business full time. It was a temptation at the outset to attach the Merchant Marine training program, already under government control, to an expanded Merchant fleet, constructed under government expense, in a nationalized Merchant Navy along the lines of the British scheme. The fearsome prospect of financing a gigantic post-war merchant marine with pre-war deficit-subsidy black magic was like nursing an infant until it was in long pants. The problem of training personnel, of maintaining close supervision over shipping movements and dispositions, would have been...