Word: evening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator." boasted North Dakota's Milton Young. "I am sure that I have custom-threshed more hours than all the rest of the members put together, and no doubt spike-pitched more hours than any other Senator. I doubt if more than a dozen members of the Senate even know what spike-pitching means." Other Senators might indeed be less knowing than Wheat Farmer Young about custom-threshing and spike-pitching.-But they did know plenty about the wants and needs of U.S. farmers-the richest farmers in history, enjoying the richest years of their lives, and determined that...
...What Atomic Blitz?" All of this made the Navy's bitterness understandable without making right what its bitter men said. Even so staunch a friend of the Navy as the New York Times's Annapolis-trained Military Analyst Hanson Baldwin wrote that he himself did not consider the cutbacks in the Navy program disastrous. Baldwin added drily that "Some of the Navy's interest in morality as applied to strategic bombing seems new-found...
...Even Money. The President flew back to Washington having obviously enjoyed himself, and went on about his business during the rest of the week with the air of a man determined to make the best of a difficult world. He reminded reporters gathered for his weekly press conference that it was his 200th formal meeting with them. He liked press conferences, he said, and though he occasionally got annoyed with their bosses, he thought most of the assembled newsmen were eminently fair...
...insistence of the hard-hit Matson Navigation Co. (with 18 freighters and the luxury liner Lurline immobilized) and sugar planters (plagued by $61 million worth of raw sugar piled up in the islands). The strike had cost the islands an estimated $100 million loss in business and wages. Even with the settlement accepted by both sides, Hawaiians had to wait a while before normal shipping was resumed: the union insisted on clearing up some fringe issues before letting its stevedores go back to work...
...last week the Press Club received a polite refusal. "While I deeply appreciate the great honor conferred on me . . ." Costello wrote, "I cannot accept ... I never made a speech in my life and the very thought of it almost scares me to death. Even the idea of facing members of the press gives me the shivers, although not nearly so much now as before November last, when you loused up the election situation and the betting odds...