Word: boned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to H.A.A. publicity there are only four types of injuries: head, arm, leg, and body, and those terms conceivably may cover anything from a broken bone to a black and blue spot. Just how serious this recent string of ailments will be remains a little indefinite at this time...
...This "investigating" subcommittee was no ordinary Senatorial investigating committee. No Senatorial vote authorized it. Set up by Isolationist Senator Wheeler, in his capacity as chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee, it held hearings supposedly to determine whether an investigation should be made. Stuffed with diehard Isolationists-Clark of Idaho, Bone of Washington (absent because of illness), Tobey of New Hampshire, Brooks of Illinois-it had only one Administration supporter. He was Ernest McFarland, 6-ft. ex-judge of Florence, Ariz., who had won a surprise victory over Senator Ashurst...
...Hitler's Europe today, though it includes the large oil fields of Rumania, is short of oil. In the countries of the Axis, as well as in conquered countries, consumption has been cut to the bone, but still there is a shortage in sight for 1941. Europe this year, in spite of bombing and dislocation of transportation, may produce and refine as much as 100,000,000 barrels; 30,000,000 of it from the great German synthetic gasoline industry. She must use up at least 115,000,000 barrels...
...reason why most of the 185,000 U.S. manufacturers are without defense orders is that owners lack the ingenuity and brass to get them. Some got bone chills in a prime contractor's waiting room, some got the Washington run-around,* most never even tried. A few have been burned by phony Washington go-betweens. A few have resorted to real go-betweens (nominally "employes," for legal reasons) and got contracts at the price of large commissions...
...Texas originally gave title to the land in question to an illiterate young Southerner named Wilson Strickland who had migrated west, presumably had fought in the Texas revolution. The tract was hilly, bone-dry, good for nothing except a scrubby growth of pine, and Strickland never bothered with it. He left Montgomery County, vanished into mists of hearsay; some people said he had been shot to death. In 1847 a Portuguese freebooter and slave trader named Allen Vince sued him for a $200 debt, got a judgment against the land. But Vince never bothered with it either...