Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Till Death Us Do Part. In Cairo, on complaint of a landlord, a U.S. Army officer was arrested for driving his jeep upstairs to his second-floor apartment every night...
Through the Looking Glass. In San Diego, Federal Rent Director John Arvin got a complaint from a tenant that his place was worth more than the rent ceiling...
...World War I, said early this month during a tour of air combat training centers that the U.S. was superior both in aircraft production and design. Secretary Stimson refrained from commenting on "the reported inferiority of our planes because I have been waiting for a well-founded complaint." Two Army majors sagely told the Society of Automotive Engineers in New York that while "it may be admitted that for altitude work we have not yet been able to match the best fighters of Britain, Germany and Japan," the P-40 and P39 were doing a creditable job "in the lower...
Most frequent criticism of the Council and its program is the complaint that America should devote all of its attention to winning the war. The Council's answer is contained in a flyer distributed throughout the college in the last few days...
...break house records. Almost all Detroit nightclub customers are factory workers; small individual checks are bolstered by a door charge. At the uppity Club Royale executives are coming back after months when they were too busy on war work to gallivant. Burlesque strippers disrobe before ever-growing audiences. Only complaint of the operators: kitchen help and waiters are hard to find, and harder to keep...