Word: comments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrapped themselves in deep, angry silence. Unofficially it was explained that the assessment boost was to build up a war chest against the day when defense work ends and the recession sets in. But neither Mr. Lewis nor any U.M.W. bigwig would "dignify this little unprintable strike" with official comment...
Ickes cannot watch any spectacle for than a few minutes without comment, usually acidulous. First he chafed. Then his hackles rose. Finally he boiled over, blew his top. His basic point: the U.S. is going to run out of everything. He ran out of aluminum months before Big Ed Stettinius' materials division saw any real problem. He ran out of steel in January, although the President, Economist Gano Dunn and Stettinius were still insisting in February that the U.S. had of plenty of steel. In quick succession Harold Ickes then ran out of electric power, coal, transportation, railroad & shipping...
...Glamor Girl of the new season. Particulars: her height is 5 ft. 1½ in., weight 100 lb., waist 21 in., hair blonde, eyes grey-green. Her father is a banker (assistant vice president of Manufacturers Trust Co.). She likes chitlin's (pig's intestines). Her comment on the election: "Ridiculous. . . . A glamor girl should be tall, dark, and svelte. . . . I don't know what my parents will think...
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...comment when friends later urged him to give up flying: "I don't want to be one of those generals who die in bed." His nervy, bad-weather flights did more than give him a reputation for courage; they pioneered a flight technique which every military pilot must master today. A tireless long-distance pilot, Andy Andrews several U.S. and world records (including three once held by Charles A. Lindbergh...