Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ernest Hemingway, sporting a lush bush, was nightclub-sitting with Fellow Author John Steinbeck, who has just started to become a beaver, when (reported New York Post Columnist Leonard Lyons) they were asked: "Why the beards?" Steinbeck: "Obviously, an affectation." Hemingway: "Obviously, to cover a rash...
...Milwaukee's Nunn-Bush Shoe Company set up a "52-pay-checks-each-year" plan at small expense. It has been handsomely repaid in increased worker efficiency. It now boasts that its 900 workers covered by the plan are shoe indus try's highest paid. Estimated income (excluding supervisors) last year...
Your story (TiME, April 3) of Dr. Vannevar Bush and his 6,000 silent scientists is superb. Whether or not so intended, your record of these men, achieving magnificently yet anonymously and without personal credit or special compensation, is tongued with biting censure -for politicians who live and breathe for favorable headlines, businessmen who make profits prerequisite to patriotism, and every mother's son among us who thinks a ten-billion-dollar tax bill an excessive burden. The 6,000 give one a lift. Could they be bureaucrats...
...Vannevar Bush, general of the U.S. army of war scientists (TIME, April 3), last week was one of the most anxious of the war. It looked as if the under-26 draft might take a vital section of his army away from him. As a good soldier, Dr. Bush made no public outcry. But outcry there was aplenty from the nation's scientists...
...draft order threatened to call back from the fighting fronts technicians sent there by Dr. Bush's OSRD to watch the performance of new weapons under battle conditions...