Word: cats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Textiles. The long awaited orders to roll back textile prices 6 or 7%, and to allocate cloth to producers of low-priced goods, was ready for enforcement. The more obstreperous groups in the textile industry greeted the order with cat calls, others met it with stony silence...
...military secret that is becoming too big a cat to be kept in the bag, got partly out last week. WPB announced that production of jet-propelled planes, the latest and most revolutionary thing in aviation, is being sharply stepped up; by next year the jets may be the biggest single item in the U.S. plane-building program. Recent performances by new types have been so sensational that most plane designers now believe the propeller-driven airplane is obsolete, may be largely displaced in the final drive against Japan...
...five cartridges in their guns. Some - mighty unpopular - "were so tough they'd growed horns and was haired over." Their gun battles were called corpse and cartridge occasions', the aftermath "looked like beef day at an Injun agency." A bad man was a curly wolf, a bandido, cat-eyed, or just a plain killer. Sometimes a curly wolf could stay on the dodge, among the willows, or lookin' over his shoulder for quite a spell. But once caught, his fate was sealed. With a rope around his neck he was hung up to dry, or exalted...
...satisfactory solution." The glass did not usually penetrate very deep, but many cuts contained dirt as well as glass, and removing every splinter was almost impossible. Worst glass injuries were to eyeballs. "A large proportion were received when looking out of windows-a modern version of curiosity killing the cat...
...Mare's Nest. Like some other U.S. publishers, Hearst has been saved by the war, which shot circulation up, reduced the size of his papers, and brought him all the advertising his papers could carry. Besides sharing the general prosperity, Hearst has untangled himself from as complicated, a cat's cradle of corporate ties as ever kept a law firm out of mischief...