Word: ets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been more topsy-turvy than ever. Representatives of industry after industry have streamed into town to wail that they could not possibly fulfill their war contracts if their young key workers were drafted. Officials of Army, Navy, War Manpower Commission, Selective Service, WPB, ODT, Petroleum Administration for War, et al, have been scrambling away at cross-purposes or behind each other's backs, trying to get favored treatment for their industrial wards...
...snow ... 6c airmail stamps ... meat on Wednesday ... student club singsongs ... Herilhy's "fawn the battalion" ... Kolker and "my name is Marvin J." ... And the case of champagne to: Lt. Beckham, attaining the senile age of 24 come 18 April ... Student Club Saturday night struggles ... Webb, Van Housen, Hope, Bergen, et al, for getting things done ... Captain MacIntosh for our 13-day leave ... and those one hundred iron men on their...
...Washington last week a million dollars' worth of steel-industry talent for-gathered, by some mischance, in the wrong room. When the mistake was discovered, the high-priced executives, economists, public-relations counselors, lawyers, et al. put on their Homburgs, gathered up their brief cases, and marched, 100 strong, to the Smithsonian Institution. Upstairs past the stuffed moose, not far from Lindbergh's rickety-looking little Spirit of St. Louis, and in an auditorium surrounded by herds of dinosaurs and mastodons, they sat down to hear what they had come for: the most determined assault on the Little...
...industry's almost-unanimous opposition to Ickes' plans for an Arabian pipeline (TIME, Dec. 27, et seq.) reached a new high last week. In Dallas, Sun Oil's Vice President James Edgar Pew of Philadelphia flatly called the pipeline an invitation to the next world...
...what would not come up at the overdue conference. At the head of the not-for-discussion list are the two piping-hot but purely domestic issues: 1) whether the U.S. should have one big "chosen instrument" or a few competing foreign airlines (TIME, Aug. 23 et seq.); 2) whether railroads, ship companies and bus lines should be allowed to fly. On the positive side, U.S. diplomats were fresh out of ideas...