Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expected some inflation last week. To try to freeze and police all U.S. prices now would be a task for a Gestapo, which Washington neither wants nor has the time to put together. Even Leon Henderson, given all the power he wants, expected to be little more than a drag on inflation, stopping advances here & there at strategic points. The problem was seen rather in its overall fiscal aspect: that of increasing total output and keeping consumer buying power down. For the latter, the consumer could count on one thing, whether his prices are controlled or not. His taxes, both...
...Commissioner, Dr. Herman Niels Bundesen. He has made frequent headlines by running "diet derbies," endorsing sauerkraut juice for health, giving his blood to sick babies, opposing the construction of a skyscraper because it would shut off sunlight from the streets. Since the best way to fight syphilis is to drag it into the open, Dr. Bundesen and aids have pulled down Chicago's syphilis rate in the last three years from...
...metal shells to which actors repair when they are supposed to be below earth or water's surface, echo chambers, noise-making devices ranging from kettledrums to sheets of steel. Latitude Zero has a few new ones. When man-eating trees run amok in the script, the soundmen drag a real tree into the studio, grapple with it to give the proper effect. If the script calls for voices in a tunnel, the cast joins the soundmen in building one of chairs, tables, blankets, etc. In order to make a character, reduced in size by a magic ring, sound...
...verbal shell that the President aimed at the Axis with the promise of U.S. aid in the Battle of the Atlantic. Doing their best to minimize the effectiveness of the speech, Germany and Italy charged that the U.S. was playing an "imperialistic" game, trying to prolong the war, to drag Latin America into it by the heels. Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, Nazis said, had answered Roosevelt before he spoke by declaring that U.S. convoys of British ships would...
...hundred doctors, dietitians, chemists, industrialists met in Washington last week to tackle an immense problem: the U.S. diet. As a whole the U.S. today is probably better fed than any other nation, but at least 45,000,000 people in the U.S. are undernourished. Another 50,000,000 people drag along on four cylinders, but cut a good five years off their work-life by not eating the right foods. Of the 35,000,000 remaining, quite a few suffer from overeating...