Word: codding
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...foureffed America's big noise of the year, a loved-up character known as Frank Sinatra to most and Oooooofrankie to a select few who poured over $6,000 in the till of the R.K.O. Boston last week when crooner Sinatra came to sample of the bean and the cod...
...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...
...cities, Congressmen slipped back almost unnoticed. Boston newspapers all but ignored Majority Leader John McCormack, who hurried up to the White Mountains, and Minority Leader Joseph W. Martin, who sat, fully dressed in tie and coat as always, in a rocker on the porch of his Cape Cod cottage. But in the small towns their Congressman's return was news; interviews, picnics, speeches, delegations...
...general manager, Boss Brown drafted tall, jut-jawed Chester Bowles, 42, head of Manhattan's potent advertising firm of Benton & Bowles, Connecticut manager of OPA. Yaleman Bowles was sailing off Cape Cod when his appointment was announced, had to be hunted down and called ashore by the Coast Guard. His experience with the OPA in Connecticut had taught him just how much the public will stand, he said: he would try to do his best...
...Like cod into a seine, some 20,000 panting citizens swarm every evening into a converted cyclodrome at Boston's Revere Beach. They are not bothered by the OPA ban on pleasure driving: Revere can be reached by Boston's elevated system, streetcar lines and a dozen bus routes from North Shore towns. Nor are they bothered by the knowledge that they may go home $10 or $20 poorer. They are hungry dog fans. And the old cyclodrome, now named Wonderland, is a greyhound track...