Word: czar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will remain unavailable for civilian goods as long as the Services are convinced that its release will interfere with war production. In effect, the reconversion problem, on whose solution future U.S. prosperity largely hangs, has clashed head on with the lingering problem of war production. This week home front Czar Jimmy Byrnes offered to arbitrate the big dispute. But Donald Nelson still might need all his convalescent strength for the battle ahead...
...Food Czar Marvin Jones reported: "All along the production front, farmers have produced above schedule. . . . Just now there is no serious shortage of food of any kind." Specifically, the food boss promised more ice cream in May and June...
Doukhobors began boycotting war in Czarist Russia a century ago, eventually had to leave. Most of the Dominion's 17,000 industrious, abstemious "Douks" have accepted pacifist alternatives to national service; only the obstreperous sect-within-a-sect called Sons of Freedom balked. In court, the Czar of Heaven disdained to take the oath, said that he would sooner kiss the magistrate than kiss the Bible. Disrobers got two years in the penitentiary; the Czar, a $5 fine...
Promptly Popoff paraded again, this time garbed only in his crown. "Let my brothers out of jail," he shouted. Result: two years for the Czar...
...Atlantic and northward along the coastline, perhaps all the way up to Maryland. It will be years before that hope is finally confirmed or disproved. But meanwhile the southeastern boom fosters a nearer-term political purpose for the rugged individualists of the U.S. oil industry. As Oil Czar Ickes backs his unpopular Arabian pipeline (TIME, Feb. 14, et seq.) with dire warnings that the U.S. "cannot oil another war," the industry can use every new oil strike at home as an argument against...