Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last fortnight has brought a promising new burst of activity in McNutt's air-conditioned offices. He worked out the voluntary freeze of Western miners and a similar plan for the Northwest lumber industry. He set up management-labor committees in cities where shortages are worst. He persuaded the Army & Navy to check with draft boards before accepting enlistments, and set up a drastic manpower plan for Government employes (who henceforth are subject to being moved to new jobs anywhere the Civil Service Commission sees fit). And before the House Tolan Committee, he made the strongest, clearest case...
Said Anthony Eden, the entire Balkans would burst into revolt "at the appointed hour." In Sofia cellars and in Serbian mountain passes many wondered who would appoint the hour, and when it would come...
...looks today the 1,200-acre Higgins Liberty Shipyard outside New Orleans. Amid a burst of fanfare, it was started six months ago as a gigantic project to build cargo ships on a water-borne assembly line. Two months ago the vast yard teemed with 7,000 workmen, scores of pile drivers, steam shovels, drag lines, floodlights. Over $10,000,000 was spent. Then suddenly came Maritime Commission orders: Close the yard. Official reason: the steel shortage...
Newspapers last week burst out with startling news-the Army is inducting men with venereal diseases. Fact is, the Army has been inducting gonorrheal cases for many months, but has not publicized its policy...
Even in 1941, at a parade in San Francisco, Robertson was staggered when a U.S. Army band burst into Marching Through Georgia: "My army playing that tune! I could not have been more surprised had it struck up The Watch on the Rhine...