Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sidekick Rear Admiral Howard L. Vickery in the Maritime Commission. Critics inside the Administration gave up sniping, got down to the objective of getting leathery, salty "Jerry" Land out. They leveled three withering charges against the whole U.S. shipbuilding program: there was no real central control; there was a dismal lack of coordination; there had been an all-around failure to anticipate needs. They even had a candidate to take Jerry Land's place: the West Coast's hurry-up man, Henry Kaiser...
...Kuecker gave some figures to help explain this dismal situation. Minimum supplies and equipment for each U.S. soldier landed abroad weigh 15 tons. A Liberty ship loads about 9,000 tons of cargo, or enough for about 600 men. A round-trip Pacific voyage takes 80-odd days...
...dismal night in Milan, Italy, the secret agent who wrote these anonymous reminiscences was haled into an office of the Questura (police) and left alone for two or three hours in the stench of moldy paper and urine characteristic of Italian police stations. Then he was told that he was guilty of high treason and would be shot in the morning. S. K. could not commit suicide, because the police had discovered where he kept his granule of cyanide, and took it away from him. How he got out of that one proved to be a turning point...
...York he studied when he could at Columbia University, lived in the slums. From his sojourn he learned that Americans are "strong in business and materialistically inclined," but when he became ill in a dismal New York boardinghouse he also found that "the masses of the U.S. are more sensitive to the feeling of justice than the masses of any other country, and American democracy is the best democracy in the world...
Wild as the winds on Scotland's Ben Cruachan, red-haired Mrs. McEuen charged that seamen were being driven from her club's pleasant premises to the dismal bootleg joints on the Halifax waterfront...