Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Artie Shaw, grand-opera-tempered jazz maestro, who once called his jazz fans "morons," gave up all hope for U.S. jazz: "[It] is a dying duck that needs artificial respiration. All this shrieking, screaming and swooning will kill jazz...
...Three Caballeros (Disney-RKO-Radio) is that rare event, a Disney failure. Like Saludos Amigos ('TIME, Jan. 25> 1943)> this full-length film was made in the interests of hemispheric good will. The good will is entrusted chiefly to Donald Duck, who expresses it in terms of an alarmingly incongruous case of hot pants. Thanks to an ingenious but seldom very rewarding blend of drawings and regular color-movies with living actors, Donald whizzes from one Latin American beauty to the next like a berserk bumblebee. Since he remains at base a combination of loud little boy and loud...
Either way, in or out, Henry Wallace was by no means a dead duck politically. The two-day hearings had highlighted, as never before, the two utterly conflicting philosophies of government now at play in the U.S. Henry Wallace's comprehensive statement of his philosophy had confirmed the worst fears of his opponents. Probably it had also won him more friends...
...President has rarely fired anybody, but he swept aging Jesse Jones out as head of the Commerce Department, the RFC, and RFC's eight potent subsidiaries.* The reason was purely political and Mr. Roosevelt made no bones about it. It was to give a job to lame-duck Vice President Henry Wallace...
...shortages of manpower. Merchant shipbuilding, with its notoriously high labor turnover, will always be in a critical state while labor is free to go where it pleases. High priority programs on the Army list which are also feeling the labor pinch are small-arms ammunition, tanks, tires, cotton duck, mines, smelters, basic metal fabrications-all industries involving hard and dirty work, mostly at low pay and therefore unpopular with U.S. workers...