Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boom) is the least that the U.S. needs. But no estimate of a bedrock economy (even assuming that it could be accurate in the first place) is static: in a long war, as goods wear out, one year's bedrock can turn into the next year's breakdown, as need for replacements and repairs mounts...
...because he keeps making news. This time it's in the form of two fine albums of re-issue, one Victor and one Brunswick, now a Decca subsidiary. The Brunswick has the edge in quality, and the advantage of having many sides unavailable for more than ten years. "Birmingham Breakdown" is remarkable for being the only Ellington with a Dixieland breakdown ending, and "Wall Street Wail" has always been one of my favorites...
...Moon Is Down (20th Century-Fox) presents the cinema audience with a ready-made controversy. As novel and play, John Steinbeck's fable about a Nazi garrison's nervous breakdown in Norway kicked up a loud literary row. Were Steinbeck's Nazis softer than the real thing...
...management's first open answer. To four Congressional committees G.M.'s President Charles E. Wilson sent a blistering 816-word telegram. "The dual allegiance which will arise when foremen are unionized will imperil their ability to fulfill their responsibilities. ... It is easy to visualize the complete breakdown of authority and internal plant discipline...
...told the German people and the world where Adolf Hitler was. He had not spoken or made any public appearance for four months and a half (a few public statements had been read for him). The U.S. State Department had seen reports that Hitler had suffered a complete nervous breakdown, added that these reports were wholly unconfirmed. Stockholm reported that a famed brain surgeon, Professor Herbert Olivecrona, had been in Germany to treat an important patient...