Word: copse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army Needed. By then Policeman Henderson will need a super-colossal army of price police. Originally estimated at 90,000, a number high enough to frighten all retailers, its size has already been cut by the Budget Bureau to 60,000. Of this, said OPA, only about 15,000 will...
At just the psychological moment, defense workers and cops blossomed out with gas masks. Papers printed rules on what to do in a gas attack. Barrage balloons bumbled in the skies from Vancouver to Mexico ("just like in England"), carefully spotted above war plants that had otherwise been carefully camouflaged...
Politesse. In Chicago, Gordon Sheehe (of Northwestern University's famed Traffic Safety Institute), mindful of the strain of wartime living, offered a new precept for traffic cops: "Officers must learn to disregard remarks made by the motorist due to his upset condition, must avoid argument and keep their tempers...
No Traffic. This week an observer in heaven would have seen in one spreading glance at the Eastern Seaboard that the greatest of all wartime changes yet had come to the U.S. For the traffic had shrunk to a trickle. All the great, wide, sweetly curved, excellently engineered highways were...
Hocus-Bogus. In Tulsa, two motorists involved in an accident were ordered by two bogus cops to appear in bogus court next morning. They did, were met at the courtroom door by the two bogus cops, were fined $65 by a bogus judge, dismissed.