Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having thus struck the keynote of production, Kaiser could make short work of the Wallace-New Deal plans for getting it: "There is no bounty sufficient to accomplish the task. There is nothing in the philosophy of the handout that can lead to anything but despair for the post-war world which is so rapidly approaching...
...than 35 persons (from the Federal Government) claiming some authority," only to have the whole thing abandoned just before Pearl Harbor. Frantically reinstated last January, the Tonawanda project cannot now be completed until after Easter and the water supply is still in question. Said Roy Brockett last week, in despair over his housing problem: "We've been told the stuff is going to come through but nothing has been done...
...counties crowded close against the Japanese in the northeast pocket are being withered by the worst civilian disaster in China since the outbreak of war. Refugees crossing the Chinese lines from Shantung report worse conditions there than in Honan. The refugees drift along in a stupor of hunger and despair, having no destination, but only the desperate urgency of flight...
...right to a happy future in Hitler's Europe." But the response was bad. Workers disappeared just before they were to entrain for Germany. A bomb destroyed the Lyon recruiting offices on the Boulevard Garibaldi. At least ten officials of the Vichy Labor Ministry resigned in protest and despair. Workers in the big Renault plant near Paris struck in protest against the forced recruiting. They were idle for three hours, until the Germans threatened to shoot 50 hostages in the factory courtyard. Then they went back to work making tanks for Hitler's armies in Russia...
Artist is Neysa McMein (magazine covers), who has never worked with pen and ink before. Her first attempt is nothing extra, as comics go, but it will probably satisfy the customers. Says Artist McMein: "I despair of ever getting out the front door again. Why, they say these things sometimes go on for as long as 22 years...