Word: clatters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Less typewriter clatter in the U.S., more small-arms clatter on all fronts was a WPB demand last week. Typewriter men, called to Washington to view a table full of knocked-down rifles, revolvers, and other arms, nodded a grim okay. Some were already making 40-mm. projectiles, primers, fire-control equipment. Now they will make more...
...bustling San Diego, mile after mile of waterfront and countryside has been a-clatter with the building of a Marine base, a naval training station, a dock, barracks, other construction which the Navy needs posthaste. Last week the clatter was stilled. Some 3,500 members of A.F. of L. building-trades unions had walked off the job leaving more than $23,000,000 worth of contracts tied...
Midway's commissioning was a reminder to the U.S. public that the Navy has worked fast & furiously at its bases be yond Hawaii since it got the wherewithal from a grudging Congress. Next week there will be a brief pause in the clatter of work on two other outposts - Johnston and Palmyra Islands. The ceremony will be repeated again and two of the Navy's flying lieutenants will take over as C.O.s...
Naval and marine units occupied Iceland, which lies directly in the battlefield of the Atlantic. This act, which constituted the first U.S. plunge into cold action, was of tremendous strategic importance. It meant that a new visible weight, not just the clatter of it, was actually beginning to loom up in the west against the Germans. At the moment, it loomed not very large -but it loomed...
...home, Canajoharie in New York's Mohawk Valley, a model town without looking like it, gave it an art museum and a library, put boxes of flowers on the village's lampposts (an idea he picked up in Hungary). In the old days before the clatter-clang of modern machinery, he hired a pianist to relieve the workers' tedium. Last year, on top of above-average wages, the company set aside $466,249 for its employes (including old-age benefits and a Christmas bonus of $3 times the years of an employe's service). But this...