Word: boone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this boon to babies did not mean that their parents would shortly be wallowing in bobby pins, pot scourers and can openers. WPB flatly refused to relax metal restrictions on 646 other civilian items, despite the ample steel supply. A few weeks ago WPB's Office of Civilian Requirements was talking hopefully of supplying pent-up demands for many a much-missed article of everyday life. It still plans soon to increase the manufacture of alarm clocks, let a score of other minor items dribble out. But for the most part, OCR has now decided to keep...
...Nursery Boon to Mothers
...What this probably meant was that troops or mobilized civilians can be set to mining tin, tungsten, lead, copper, antimony, harvesting rubber, producing quinine, building roads. Labor for these enterprises has been scarce, and it has sometimes been both obstreperous and ill-treated. Mobilization presumably will not be a boon to Bolivian labor, but it may well increase production of Bolivian war material...
...Herald-American's "War Romance Clinic" was born. Editor Malloy launched it amid typical Hearst ballyhoo; the wife of Chicago's Mayor Edward Kelly was persuaded to say for publication, "What a boon it will be . . ."; Herald-American delivery trucks had their sides plastered with promotion ads that screamed, "Soldier, You're Breaking My Heart...
Among the other speakers who will appear before the delegation are Bartholomew Landheer of the Netherlands Information Bureau, H. N. Boon, first secretary of the Netherlands embassy in Washington, P. J. H. M. Mommersteeg, advisor to the Netherlands embassy, and P. Honig, a member of the Dutch economic mission...