Word: cooler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With his prospects now in mellow and receptive mood, Administrator Bowles launched into his real sales talk. In cooler postwar years, he asserted, OPA's performance will be recognized as "one of the best jobs done during the war." He proceeded to prove it by not droning statistics, or by making belligerent assertions, but with a series of 106 big (2 by 3 ft.), easy-to-read charts, mounted on a 7-ft. easel and shifted by a clerk as Chester Bowles made the accompanying narration. Main theme: thanks to OPA, the U.S. has come off quite well...
...Denver last week one angry wool grower suggested that the easiest way to dispose of the 850-million lb. stockpile of foreign wool now clogging U.S. East Coast warehouses would be to stage another Boston Tea Party, chucking the foreign wool into the sea. Cooler heads recommended that the Government-owned stock of 200 million lb. of domestic wools be used before the imported stockpile is drawn upon. But everyone at the National Wool Growers Association meeting agreed on a hope that somehow the enormous surplus might be shipped abroad when war ends and the European textile industry is rehabilitated...
...letter and its answer was divided. As the wording of the U.S. note sank in, extremely nationalistic Argentines grew hot with anger. Said one young hothead: "To hell with the U.S. We're looking toward Europe for now and after the war." Said one whose head was much cooler: "Don't think me unpatriotic, but the Government was asking...
Back to Nature. Meteorologist Rossby believes that war stimulates progress in meteorology, but he expects no miracles after World War II. He urges that city planners study meteorology and meteorologists study city planning, but at best he thinks cities of the future may be made only a few degrees cooler in summer, a few degrees warmer in winter. The most practical step cities can now take toward weather control, says he, is to get rid of their smoke (perhaps by underground smoke tunnels). So doing, they would get more ultraviolet radiation, better visibility, fewer fogs, probably less rain...
...another attacker got Widhelm's oil cooler. He put his plane in a tight corkscrew which no Zero could follow (Gus used to be a stunter), landed in the water and got into his rubber raft with Stokely...