Word: card
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will get "at least" as much oil to heat their homes as last winter, possibly more. Gas-starved Eastern motorists will get relief, too. Now that tank cars can be freed from the Eastern haul, gas & oil supplies can be equalized from the Rockies to the Atlantic. Eastern A-card holders will probably have their gas allowances upped from one and a half to two or three gallons a week, to use as they please; Midwest motorists will probably be cut from four gallons to the same figure, thus sharing the shortage...
...Card. In Berkshire, England, a farmer who wanted a permit to buy wire sent the War Agricultural Committee a card, asked it to cross out inappropriate statements, send it back. The card read: "1) To hell with you and your wire; 2) There is no wire; 3) What is wire? 4) Don't you know there's a war on? 5) You can have a permit next month, next year, in 1945; 6) Permit herewith...
Postwar Insurance. Probably the most powerful trump card the Allies can play is the prospect of furnishing postwar influence for Turkey against Soviet Russia. Despite the "series of most advanced treaties" which Saracoglu announced as having consolidated the Turkish rapprochement with Russia, Russian postwar aims remain Turkey's greatest fear. Control of the Dardanelles, Russia's only outlet to the southern waterways, has been a sore point between the two nations for decades; Turkey's control of it today hinges on the Montreux Convention...
...addicts could now regularly hear the resurrected, 63-year-old New Orleans trumpeter Willie ("Bunk") Johnson and other barrelhouse veterans who played with him at a San Francisco jazz concert in May (TIME, May 24). Time: every Sunday afternoon. Place: the C.I.O. hall. Admission: six bits and a membership card in the Hot Jazz Society. Said Bridges: "That Bunk is an American institution...
...about?" Then there is the uproarious moment when the sheet falls off the stretcher, revealing that Costello is really walking down the street holding before him a pair of crutches with shoes affixed to their ends. The boys' gagmen have apparently been busy with one of the largest card indexes in Hollywood. The picture comes closest to comic originality when it swipes the idea of Charles Addams' famous and unsettling New Yorker cartoon which showed what was apparently one man's ski tracks passing a tree on both sides...