Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest of all WAA's blunders. Snorted Oilman Smith: "Fantastic." Actually, the Army-Navy board told WAA last month that it had no preference as to oil v. gas. And if WAA was going to permit the lines to be used for gas, then Littlejohn's complaint that bids were too low made little sense. Many of the bidders would gladly have raised their bids considerably if WAA had told them they could pipe gas (gas securities are more readily marketed than oil securities). All along, they had offered to take the pipelines on either basis...
Hollywood, living far beyond its cus tomers' means, suffers from a severely bloated pocketbook (TIME, Oct. 21). The complaint is chronic, but a shrewd new diagnosis has been made by the Saturday Review of Literature's roving reviewer, John Mason Brown...
Poland filed a complaint against Franco Spain last April but the United Nations Security Council, after a long wrangle, failed...
...tells (mounds) near the Habur and Jaghjagha rivers. To her consternation, Mrs. Mallowan was drafted as a gynecologist by the Arab women. Reports amateur gynecologist Mallowan: "The commonest gesture is an expressive rubbing of the abdomen. This has one of two meanings: a) acute indigestion, b) a complaint of sterility. Bicarbonate of soda does excellent work in the first case and has attained a somewhat surprising reputation in the second...
...frequent cause for complaint cited in the Council document is the H.A.A. policy of re-selling turned-in tickets on a first-come, first-servd basis at their ticket office. The statement alleged that this practice often permits non-Harvard spectators to appear in excellent seats on the Harvard side, and asked that some new plan "whereby Harvard undergraduates could got first shot at turned-in seats" be adopted to improve the situation...