Word: catch-as-catch-can
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...inter-House competition is rapidly developing into a catch-as-catch-can affair, and a shortage of players for competing Houses has resulted in frequent drafting of non-residents to fill out the squads. Lyons, the winning Kirkland pitcher, hails from Winthrop House...
...provide only four cars for each of its dealers, whereas the fewer dealers of some smaller companies would have many more. This kind of quota trouble should not affect many businesses. WPB plans to free members of most industries to turn out as much as they want on a catch-as-catch-can basis. This will not be possible with autos, because the industry is so greedy for steel that other industries would be crowded out. Nor will it be possible with the construction industry, which is equally greedy with lumber...
Reported Dead. Admiral Nicholas Horthy, 77, aristocratic, choleric ex-Regent of Hungary whose catch-as-catch-can foreign policy (collaboration with Hitler until invading Russian troops suggested a quick switch to the Allies) was always one bad guess behind; of a heart attack (according to the Paris radio): probably in Weilheim Castle near Munich, Germany, where he has been under Nazi "protection...
...Jeep bounces Carole Landis, Kay Francis, Martha Raye and Mitzi Mayfair through a catch-as-catch-can cineversion of Miss Landis' book (and Satevepost articles) of the same title, reporting their experiences as USO entertainers. In the book, only Miss Landis got married. In the picture, Martha Raye, the feminists' Joe E. Brown, practically ingests the comic sergeant (Phil Silvers) who chauffeurs their jeep. Mitzi Mayfair snuggles up to a uniformed ex-vaudeville partner (Dick Haymes, who is Fox's threat to Frank Sinatra, and sings like melting vanilla ice cream). Kay Francis plays handles...
...mills, shipyards, etc., into the pleasanter surroundings and high wages of the aircraft plants. As a result, war production in Buffalo's heavy industries was hamstrung, while overstaffed aircraft plants frequently marked time for lack of parts from understaffed subcontractors. To ease the crisis, Buffalo fumbled with numerous catch-as-catch-can makeshifts. Example: to induce more women to take war jobs, a cozy Cape Cod cottage was built in downtown Buffalo to give them a cozy place in which to sign up. But the cozy touch failed. Quick, tough action was needed...