Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Steady, Barker," half of Britain rears back and roars. The catch line is Barker's trademark-and his contribution to the language. During the war small British ships used the words as a warning against U-boats. And in the thousand irritations of civilian life in postwar Britain, the foolish phrase has proved a good-natured godsend...
Selected from among almost 1,300 applicants, a first term class of 300 members has swollen enrollment at the School of Business Administration to an all time peak of 1559. The current entering class is the fourth largest since the resumption of civilian instruction in February...
...turn out the needed monthly minimum of 10,000 cars. The automakers, they cried, were getting far more than their share of steel, while railroads were getting the same percentage (9%) that they got during the war. Snapped Railway Age: "Of all the tremendous tonnage of steel freed for civilian use when war production ceased, the railroads have received not one pound. . . ." But that was only part of the trouble. The U.S. was finally paying for depression and war years which had kept car building far below needs. If car builders got the steel they needed-and got production...
...agony of the bomb in human terms, it tells incomparably less in two hours than certain newsreel shots of Hiroshima's survivors told in as many minutes. The treatment of the moral problems exacerbated by the bomb is once-over-lightly. Problems of atomic control (Army v. civilian, U.S. v. international) are shunned like the plague...
...confirm him in his new office might well give the military another energy developments in this country. Although they lost when the McMahon Bill was passed last summer, although public opinion polls of the past year have demonstrated a steadily increasing majority of the American people in favor of civilian control, the military and their congressional supporters have not given up hope. And when it is considered that most of the opposition to Lilieuthal's confirmation stems from those Senators who fought the McMahon Bill openly and by amendment last year it is not surprising that many onlookers are disturbed...