Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japs came in from the southeast over Diamond Head. They could have been U.S. planes shuttling westward from San Diego. Civilians' estimates of their numbers ranged from 50 to 150. They whined over Waikiki, over the candy-pink bulk of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. Some were (it was reported) big four-motored jobs, some dive-bombers, some pursuits. All that they met as they came in was a tiny private plane in which Lawyer Ray Buduick was out for a Sunday morning ride. They riddled the lawyer's plane with machine-gun bullets, but the lawyer succeeded in making...
Leon Henderson for the first time made public his utter dissatisfaction with the emasculated House price-control bill. To prevent inflation he said he needed at least two powers which the House refused him: 1) power to buy & sell commodities, (to avoid the "bulk-line," or one-high-price system of World War I); 2) power to license, without which "price control is virtually impossible where the number of sellers is large"-e.g., in the retail field...
Year of the Clown. From all the appalling bulk of printed paper, only two books-Koestler's novel and Auden's poem -made a dead-center philosophical attack on the real problems of 1941. But sometimes the philosophies have not the last word. One writer who is less pretentiously touched with genius than any of them is Ludwig Bemelmans. His Ecuadorian travelogue, The Donkey Inside ($3), was the most delightful book of a far from delightful year. This month he published his even better-written Hotel Splendide ($2.50), a collection of waiters' eye-views of life...
...billion passenger-miles, and they did not want 800 million soldier-miles dumped on top of that all at once. They persuaded the QMC to stagger its leaves: men who live near camp can leave Dec. 26, but men living a great distance away get 16 days, and the bulk of this movement will start Dec. 13, before the civilian peak. On that night, solid trainloads of troops will start to highball through the railroad gateways at Washington, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Chicago, thence fan out like Panzer divisions to all parts of the Northeast, where nearly half...
...France put both Feuchtwanger and Koestler in internment camps. The difference of their treatment is epitomized in the two books' titles. Feuchtwanger's "devil in France" was the crass indifference, apathy, venality, incompetence of French officialdom. His camp guards were friendly, often respectful-and always bored. The bulk of his fellow internees were "nonpolitical" or nearly so: Jewish scholars, doctors, lawyers, artisans, tradesmen; Saarlanders who had sided with France in the days of the plebiscite, fleeing into France when they lost; ex-members of the Foreign Legion, a few of whom had lost...